China's massive'Belt and Road Initiative'(BRI)–designed to build infrastructure and
coordinate policymaking across Eurasia and eastern Africa–is widely seen as a clearly …

Emily T. Yeh's Taming Tibet is one of the best analyses of the contemporary socioeconomics
and politics of development of Tibet. The book is based on powerful ethnographic details …

For a long time, regional cooperation in Asia was impeded by several factors such as
inadequate infrastructure; mostly weak, congeneric economies, and high levels of …

This paper argues that the Chinese government's 'belt and road'initiative–the Silk Roads
vision of land and maritime logistics and communications networks connecting Asia, Europe …

" State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's
international behaviour, we have to open the black box... State authority is fragmenting …

This study evaluates the effects of a prominent place-based policy in China—the Great
Western Development Programme. In 2000, China's central government targeted inland …

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's
longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears" Latin Americanization"--the emergence of …

The dominant narrative in a growing literature about China's environment conceptualizes a
series of recent large-scale ecological construction projects, particularly in western China …

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a
socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong-known in …

This article analyses centralizing trends that may be able to reduce the negative influence of
local protectionism on environmental law enforcement in China. The article finds that as …