In our introduction to the previous issue of iChinese Economic Studies/i, we discussed the background to some of the changes that the reform program has brought about in central-local fiscal relations. The identification of national unity, prosperity, stability, and independence with the...

For historical, cultural, and ideological reasons, Chinese rulers have always placed great stress on unity and cohesiveness. A major concern of the Chinese authorities since 1949 has been to bind together the strands of regional interests and loyalties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while,...

The process of China's contemporary urbanization is being simultaneously driven by two forces possessing differing origins and vastly different consequencesâone that is found in the logic of a quasi-capitalist industrialization and modernization, and another that is a legacy of the institutions...