This article explains the current hukou system in China and provides the most recent
evidence on the impact of the hukou system on the Chinese labor market and economy. By …

Complex and inter-related factors explain the excessive use of fertilizer observed in many
intensive farming systems in China, and hence act as barriers to development of a …

We investigate how urban railroad and highway configurations have influenced urban form
in Chinese cities since 1990. Each radial highway displaces 4% of central city population to …

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 …

The Human Settlements Group works to reduce poverty and improve health and housing
conditions in the urban centres of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It seeks to combine this …

改革开放以来, 农村劳动力大规模转移和城镇就业的持续扩大, 使城乡居民从就业收入的增长中
分享了高速经济增长的成果. 与此同时, 由于社会发展相对滞后于经济发展 …

This book systematically analyzes the economic dynamics of large emerging economies
from an extended Comparative Capitalisms perspective. Coining the phrase 'state …

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and
effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined—until now …

Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule?
The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the …

A noted American authority on urbanization in China presents a retrospective analysis of
China's hukou (household registration) system on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its …