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 …

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 …

Chinese local officials frequently employ relational repression to demobilize protesters.
When popular action occurs, they investigate activists' social ties, locate individuals who …

Nearly three decades after Mao's death and more than fifteen years after the Tiananmen
uprising, China is still a Leninist Party-state. In fact, one might well argue that the prospects …

The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing
difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an …

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805061 While the number of domestic leisure
travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban …

In explaining the surprising staying power of the Chinese communist regime, analysts point
to a number of critical factors: the party-state's ability to recruit, monitor, and hold …

In recent years, the Chinese central state has launched the “new socialist countryside”
campaign (NSCC), which authorizes the local state expropriation of rural land from farmers …

This paper examines the politics of possibility for rural activism in reform era China. By
periodizing rural reforms from 1990, we explore the political-economic changes that have …

A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive
solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do states …