Evaluating the Behaviour of Chinese Stakeholders Engaged in Large Hydropower Projects in Asia and AfricaChina Quarterly - Tập 230 - Trang 464-488 - 2017
May Tan‐Mullins, Frauke Urban, Grace Mang
AbstractHydropower dams are back in the spotlight owing to a shifting preference for low carbon energy generation and their possible contribution to mitigating climate change. At the forefront of the renaissance of large hydropower dams are Chinese companies, as the builders of the world's largest dams at home and abroad, opening up opportunities for low- and middl...... hiện toàn bộ
The Political Ecology of Pollution Enforcement in China: A Case from Sichuan's Rural Industrial SectorChina Quarterly - Tập 192 - Trang 915-932 - 2007
Bryan Tilt
AbstractThis article uses a case study approach to examine the processes and consequences of pollution enforcement in an industrial township in rural Sichuan. China's national pollution emissions standards are relatively strict, but enforcement is the responsibility of some 2,500 Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) within municipal and county governments. EPB o...... hiện toàn bộ
Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?China Quarterly - Tập 195 - Trang 582-606 - 2008
Kam Wing Chan, Will Buckingham
AbstractIn recent years, China has instituted a variety of reforms to its hukou system, an institution with the power to restrict population mobility and access to state-sponsored benefits for the majority of China's rural population. A wave of newspaper stories published in late 2005 understood the latest round of reform initiatives to s...... hiện toàn bộ
The Energy Situation in ChinaChina Quarterly - Tập 131 - Trang 608-636 - 1992
Tatsu Kambara
With a total population of over a billion people, China requires vast supplies of energy for industrial and economic development. Indeed, in absolute terms, the country ranks third to the United States and the former Soviet Union as a producer and consumer of energy resources. Nevertheless, its per capita energy consumption remains extremely low even for a developing country.
Understanding the Falsification of Village Income StatisticsChina Quarterly - Tập 196 - Trang 805-826 - 2008
Lily L. Tsai
AbstractDespite the general consensus on problems with official income statistics, quantitative data on the falsification of income statistics have been scarce. This article draws on original survey data from 2001 to provide estimates of the extent and magnitude of income data falsification by village cadres and uses statistical analysis to identify factors that ar...... hiện toàn bộ
From Dispute to Decision: Suing Polluters in ChinaChina Quarterly - Tập 206 - Trang 294-312 - 2011
Rachel E. Stern
AbstractThis article traces a civil environmental lawsuit from dispute to decision to explore how environmental law works, as well as how lawyers and litigants try to work the law. Detailing ground-level encounters with a legal system promoted and carefully watched by political elites offers a fresh perspective on the ways the past 30 years of legal reforms have af...... hiện toàn bộ
China's Changing ConstitutionChina Quarterly - Tập 76 - Trang 794-841 - 1978
Jerome Alan Cohen
An organization must have rules, and so must a state. A constitution is a set of general rules, it is the fundamental law.… Constitution-making is a matter of science.Mao Tse-tung On 5 March 1978 the People's Republic of China promulgated its second constitution in little more than three years and the third since its establishment in 1949. What functions does a constitution serve in the Ch...... hiện toàn bộ
A Factionalism Model for CCP PoliticsChina Quarterly - Tập 53 - Trang 34-66 - 1973
Andrew J. Nathan
Until the Cultural Revolution, the predominant western view of
contemporary Chinese elite conflict was that it consisted of “discussion”
(t'ao-lun) within a basically consensual
Politburo among shifting “opinion groups” with no “organized force” behind
them. The pu...... hiện toàn bộ
From “Rubber Stamps” to “Iron Stamps”: The Emergence of Chinese Local People's Congresses as Supervisory PowerhousesChina Quarterly - Tập 171 - Trang 724-740 - 2002
Young Nam Cho
This article analyses Chinese local people's congresses' supervision of governments in order to see whether people's congresses have played a meaningful role in the reform era. The article will show that the main strategies of people's congresses have been to gain the support of the Chinese Communist Party and to co-operate with governments, rather than to use confrontation, in an effort t...... hiện toàn bộ
Development of Land Rental Markets in Rural Zhejiang: Growth of Off-farm Jobs and Institution BuildingChina Quarterly - Tập 180 - Trang 1031-1049 - 2004
Qian Forrest Zhang, Qingguo Ma, Xu Xu
We employ survey data collected in 2001 in Zhejiang province to investigate patterns and determinants of land market development. Previous studies have noted the correlation between growth of off-farm jobs and rental-market development at the aggregate level, but failed empirically to demonstrate mechanisms at the disaggregate level. Our analyses find concrete evidence at the household lev...... hiện toàn bộ