China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of
its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have …

Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of
comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model …

Many scholars attribute China's market reforms and the remarkable economic performance
they have fostered in part to the country's political and fiscal decentralization. Political …

The Chinese party-state is restructuring its governing institutions, and is reinventing itself in
the process. China is not only remaking its public management, but it is also restructuring its …

Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else
focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of …

In the context of rapid economic and demographic change, the People's Republic of China
has attempted to reshape its public pension system. Although China's current pension …

The Beijing Olympics were about more than just sporting competition. They were about
China and its role on the international stage. The Games were explicitly recognized for their …

This study examines the factors that lay behind the development of the Golden Week holiday
system in China in 1999 and 2007. It does so by evaluating three dimensions, namely (a) …

IN 1978, DURING THE THIRD PLENUM OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL party congress,
Deng Xiaoping initiated a new economic policy that was to have dramatic economic and …

This article offers a conceptual model that can be utilized to examine the political and
bureaucratic natures of the mechanism of the making of tourism policies in the Chinese …