The analysis of medicinal plants has had a long history, and especially with regard to
assessing a plant's quality. The first techniques were organoleptic using the physical senses …

This paper employs province-level panel data to assess the contributions of
decollectivization, price adjustments, and other reforms to China's agricultural growth in the …

In the era of state socialism under Mao, land in China was treated as a means of production
and was allocated administratively by the state free of charge. To accommodate the interests …

This study examines the relationship between urban land development and municipal
finance in a Chinese regional economy undergoing rapid urbanization. Drawing upon …

In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development
taking place in China in the last two decades George CS Lin advocates a fresh and …

Studies of land-use change in China have long been hampered by the lack of accurate and
reliable data. This research analyzes systematic data on land use gathered in the 1996 …

'This is one of the best surveys of the politics of economic reform in post-Mao China to
appear to date.'-Dali L. Yang, The Journal of Asian Studies.'Highly recommended for …

What is" Chinese about China s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see
today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal …

In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms,
it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural …

This book describes the dramatic economic and spatial transformation in China's Pearl River
Delta region over the past decade. Reforms introduced by the Chinese government since …