As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

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 …

Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of
social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews …

Recent studies on internet politics in China have gone beyond the once dominant control–
liberalization perspective and directed intellectual attention to the varieties of online …

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic
change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late …

In the past decade, a great deal has been written in the scholarly literature about the role of
resilience in our social world. This scholarship has sparked vivid theoretical debates in …

China's Political System provides a concise introduction to the political, economic, and
social factors that determine China's government. Highly respected specialist June Teufel …

Resilience has gained substantial traction in international politics of late. This scholarship
has sparked debates concerning the meaning of resilience and how scholars should go …

We argue that leadership promotion in China's political elite relies on homophily for signals
of trustworthiness and future cooperative behavior more than on economic performance. We …

Despite the various water management explorations in China over the past three decades,
China's water problems remain challenging. Recently the Chinese government introduced …