This book is the first attempt to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles. Federalism as a functioning system in China is under st...(展开全部)

Despite the destabilizing pull of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By examining Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approa...(展开全部)

This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development. Based on empirical investigations and theoretical research, it argues that this is the key to understanding the transition of central-local government relations from the overall fiscal rationing system in the 198...(展开全部)

《经济社会体制比较》在中央编译局的支持下于1985年创刊，迄今已经30周年。杂志创刊正值经济改革全面展开之际，30年来一直与中国改革同行。30年后的今天，我国改革又处于攻坚克难的关键时期。愿《经济社会体制比较》一如既往，汲取借鉴国际经验，推动市场化、法治化和民主化改革，为大转型做出新的贡献。 ——吴敬琏（著名经济学家，《经济社会体制比较》创刊主编之一） 杂志在创刊之初目标就很明确，不搞“主义”的比较，不去评论社会主义好还是资本主义好，而是要作体制的比较研究，通过各个体制的比较来吸取经验，探索中国如何从计划经济走向商品经济、市场经济，也就是说怎样从原来的计划经济过渡到市场经济。 ——荣敬本（中央编译局世界发展战略部研究员，《经济社会体制比较》杂志创刊主编之一） 《经济社会体制比较》杂志在中国过去几十年发生的伟大变革中发挥了巨大作用，对精神生活的复兴，以...(展开全部)

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August...(展开全部)

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August...(展开全部)

The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of ...(展开全部)

Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering pr...(展开全部)

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.