Since the early 1990s, studies on the transformation of the post-Mao state have increasingly
approached the issue from local perspectives and attacked national-level state studies. A …

More than three decades of research since reforms were launched has significantly
expanded our understanding of China's changing political landscape. In that period, new …

Page 1 State and Society in China The Consequences of Reform Edited by Arthur Lewis
Rosenbaum ROUTLEDGE Page 2 State and Society in China Page 3 State and Society in China …

This volume is the first comprehensive study of China's “political civilization” since the term
was introduced by then Party Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2002. Selected among about 200 …

Abstract Although the People's Republic of China turns 60 in 2009, popular and to some
extent academic perceptions of its political system remain over-determined by the …

China's 30 years of reform and opening up have undergone significant social and economic
transformations, and state governance has faced with a series of transformation crises …

One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People's Republic of China
about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The …

The reforms initiated in the wake of the decisions taken at the Third Plenum in 2013 have
been accompanied by a reconfiguration of political rhetoric. This paper argues that the …

This paper documents the downsizing experience in China since 1954 to 1998. Over years,
China's reform initiatives on the central government have been changed. They were …

Starting in 1978, Mainland China has undergone broad, deep and abrupt changes. In the
economy today, planned economics have given way to market economics; markets have …