A hybrid regime court faces a legitimacy paradox: an activist court risks attracting backlash
from the incumbent, whereas a deferential court may undermine public trust. The Hong Kong …

The situation in Hong Kong today is not dissimilar to the moral predicaments that Central
and Eastern Europe had endured during the Communist era. Then, as now, state …

ABSTRACT This study evaluates Hong Kong's soft power through investigating the relations
between the city's paradiplomatic ambits and performance and critically reflects on how the …

Acknowledgements I am immensely grateful to those who challenged me to conduct
thorough research, to deliberate over each word in this essay, and to think as a historian …

The aim of this paper is to exam rural transformation and the persistence of rurality in China.
Recent discussions on the “end of village” in China and policy suggestions that aligned to …