The first quarter century of communist rule in China was dramatic and disastrous, the mark of
a po liti cal regime whose extremism created a distinctive epoch in the history of revolution …

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This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective to focus on the role played by the rural-
urban dual system in China's urbanization and migration. We explain its establishment in …

The history of subaltern groups is necessarily fragmented and episodic. There undoubtedly
does exist a tendency to (at least provisional stages of) unification in the historical activity of …

Embedded Courts is laden with tension. Chinese courts are organized as a singular and
unified system yet grassroots courts in urban and rural regions differ greatly in the way they …

This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making
sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the …

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds
of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds …

In Diaspora's Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass
migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics …

How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich
and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship …

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of
the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of …