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 …

Background: In the past century, the importance of historical villages has been highly
recognized, as they serve aesthetic, functional, and environmental values and can foster …

In 1999 China announced the launching of the Open up the West campaign, sometimes
called “Going West,” to help western China finally catch up to the much wealthier eastern …

Existing research on distributive politics mainly focuses on the influence of electoral
competition between political parties, but less is known about non-electoral mechanisms of …

Building on conceptual frameworks to assess community resilience developed by Emery
and Flora (2006) and Kelly et al.(2015), this study analyses the resilience of Hu village …

A long-running discourse both within China and abroad castigates local leaders for
corruption and a related tendency to implement central government policy selectively. 1 The …

The book offers a comparative analysis of center-region relations in Russia and in China.
The authors focus in particular on fiscal ties and incentives, bureaucratic and local …

How China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of
rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its …

Describing the relocation of the patronage-based relationship between the state and the
private sector in post-liberalisation India, this article goes on to address the consequences of …

This article presents a qualitative empirical study of elite collusion and its influence on
village elections and rural land development in China. Drawing on ethnographic data …