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 …

It is not that long ago when the study of China's political economy could all but ignore the
external dynamic of the global political economy. But with China's insertion into that global …

China's remarkable economic success rests on a foundation of political reform providing a
considerable degree of credible commitment to markets. This reform reflects a special type …

Can it be justly claimed that a nation which has maintained a regularly administered
government over hundreds of millions of human beings for thousands of years… is …

The literature on China's regional rise reveals divergent understandings of why China
changed its regional strategy and when such a transformation occurred. There are also …

Central-local relations are a core but problematic issue in China's reform process. The
conventional wisdom is that the economic reforms have considerably weakened control by …

China needs to build upon rather than obliterate the macroregional characteristics and the
inter-regional and international linkages indicated by inherited structures. There is much to …

There is a tendency for research on processes of regional economic integration to be built
on national-based paradigms and levels of analysis. Even those approaches that move …

Chinese foreign policy is still an undertheorized domain of international relations studies.
One puzzle that preoccupies international observers is the impact of leadership changes on …

A prominent political and human geographer assesses the rise of contemporary China
through the lens of critical geopolitics. In doing so he challenges both (a) conventional world …