In recent years, urban pluvial flooding caused by extreme rainfall has increasingly occurred
across China. This paper reviews the challenges faced by China in addressing urban pluvial …

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age,
Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt …

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic in Wuhan, China has
remained under the international spotlight. Despite hostile sentiments toward the country …

The study of Chinese political economy has experienced a sea change since the late 1990s;
instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

Why would government officials in authoritarian and transitional systems where formal
democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are often weak ever provide more …

This paper challenges the prevailing perception that the environmental governance of China
is a case exemplar of authoritarian environmentalism. Using low-carbon governance as an …

Findings from prior studies regarding the relationship between government corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives and firm CSR performance have been mixed. To address this …

This paper examines significant changes (and continuities) in the realm of government in
contemporary China through drawing upon the insights of governmentality studies. It …

This book investigates the new representation unfolding in Chinese local congresses.
Drawing qualitative fieldwork and data analysis from original surveys of 5,130 township …