The paper suggests that there is a tension between the basic tenant of New Institutional
Economics (NIE) and the manner in which it has been applied in the debate on post …

The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With
rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents …

Background For the first 30 years of its existence the People's Republic of China possessed
a centrally directed health care system that produced impressive health gains. Despite few …

China Against the Tides, 3rd Edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China
evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries …

Abstract Helmke and Levitsky's (2004) institutional adaptation model is adopted in this study
to examine institutional interactions between two formal institutions in rural China: one …

Economic reforms since the late 1970s have brought about significant changes in rural
China. A large number of surplus rural labourers have been released from the agricultural …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic and social impact of rural reform
and economic restructuring in China. The impact is assessed through a case study of …

This ethnographically grounded “epidemiology” implicates China's liberalized economy in
the HIV epidemic among commercial plasma donors in rural central China. It uncovers the …

Chinese reforms initiated at the end of 1970s have brought a profound change to its rural
economy. The rapid economic growth and restructuring over the last two decades spurs the …

This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the potential for Chinese ecological
agriculture providing a basis for sustainable development in the Chinese countryside …