In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an
undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well …

A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor
country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss …

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What can we do in this period of historic, global turbulence? Mainstream narratives have no
plausible account of how to stop exacerbating the multiple, overlapping challenges; much …

What drives people to protest in an authoritarian country? Drawing from a rich set of
individual-level data from the China General Social Survey 2010, we address the question …

Notwithstanding major evolutions in both class identity and broader structural processes,
generically defined “middle classes” are still a target for both investors seeking effective …

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Chinese advertising as an industry, a
discourse and profession in China's search for modernity and cultural globalization. It …

This paper demonstrates that China uses state employment to promote social stability via
job provision. I use variation in an ethnic conflict in China's Xinjiang province to establish …

This article addresses the highly variable middle-class attitudes regarding political
transitions and suggests that social mobility is a key factor conditioning its behavior. Social …