China witnessed a great rural urbanization in the last decades. With the large scale
implementation of rural settlement consolidation projects in the rural areas, the identity of …

Background: Family planning is the processes of choosing the number of children in a family
and the length between their births by using contraception method or the aptitude of …

Pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 in Beijing's mammoth Tiananmen Square led to a
violent crackdown by the Chinese army that killed perhaps several hundred people and …

I want to take this rare opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, my
parents, my colleagues and friends and the reviewers. The PhD training I have received at …

Since the 1980s, China has gone through a transformation. The country's economy has
become privatized, changing from a communist to a more capitalist model, and political …