Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era,
Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying …

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 …

Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last
several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political …

The urbanization of rural China is increasingly achieved not through physical land grabs but
the strategic enrolment of rural communities in the commodification of land via speculative …

Corruption exists around the world and throughout the human history, but societies
undergoing rapid modernization and institutional transition tend to be more susceptible to …

“Stability preservation”(weiwen) has long been an imperative of China's one-party state. At
the same time, China has recently embedded a commitment to the protection of human …

This article calls attention to the role of capital, large capital in particular, in recent reforms to
China's system of household registration (hukou). It argues that a tripartite alliance between …

Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional
Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the …

Chinese local leaders are frequently moved across prefectures. By combining local leader
rotation data and comprehensive firm land parcel purchase data across prefectures from …

Value capture in urban renewal is a controversial issue. The equality and efficiency of value
capture in urban renewal is influenced not only by the percentage of value capture but also …