Abstract The restructuring of SOEs (State Owned Enterprises) in China produced a great
deal of labor contentions. How to manage the workers and control the labor conflicts after …

Far from acting defensively to preserve the social relations and red ideologies that originally
gave it power, the Chinese Communist Party is leading a social and economic …

The question asked in this chapter is whether under President Xi Jinping China's People's
Liberation Army (PLA) could be persuaded to again use military force to promote specific …

As the major immobile factors in a globalized market,“good” institutions and regulations are
considered to be important factors that reel in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and affect …

This chapter first presents an historical account for the market penetration processes in
Guangdong, followed by an historical account of the two main themes of this study: how the …

This chapter focuses on two issues: existing studies of social stratification of rural China and
the framework of this study. A background of rural social stratification in Mao's China is first …

The Party-state's popular legitimacy is difficult to assess. This study aims to do so via a two-
step methodology that aims to reveal the political belief sets through which the Chinese …

This dissertation is a comparative study of influences from security environment to economic
reform decisions in China and North Korea, which resulted in a sharp contrast of economic …

This dissertation investigates the effects of international linkages on regional economic
development in China, with a specific focus on China's burgeoning automotive industry …

Susan Shirk declares that China's contemporary one-party state is a “brittle, authoritarian
regime that fears its own citizens”. 1303 David Shambaugh goes as far as to proclaim that …