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Land Rights & Village Membership - A Comparative Study of Land Rights in Rural China
This study compares two disputes over land takings compensation in a single village in rural China. One dispute involves a married-out woman excluded from full compensation for a land taking in her natal village; this type of dispute is well addressed in the existing literature. The other dispute involves a man who migrated ...
Between State and Market: China's Development Banking in Comparative Perspective
In recent decades, China has been massively financing infrastructure projects around the world, building highways, railways, bridges, power plants and ports both domestically and overseas. Conventional wisdom sees this infrastructure boom as a typical story of state-led development, which is to a large extent true, but there ...
The Role of China’s State-owned Enterprises in Preserving Social Stability
As recent debates on China’s re-emphasis on the state sector mainly focused on economic profitability, this paper examines how much the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) contribute to social stability. Using a province-level panel regression, I find that the increase of SOE share of local employment is associated with the increase ...
Build the Wall and Deplete Their Attention: How the Chinese Government’s Strategic Information Control Shapes Public Opinion and Maintains Regime Support
Although China bans Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, its own social media landscape has grown strong and evolves quickly. As of 2020, over 70% of the Chinese population were online. McKinsey reports China has become the largest social-media market in the World. Yet the Chinese authoritarian regime remains stable, as opposed to ...