This study focuses upon governance and social organisation within the Chinese village and explores the extent to which farmers have autonomy vis-à-vis their ec

Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying

The danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms a

In recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial

China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away