Purpose – Investigating the characteristics of the transformation of China's agricultural growth and the institutional reforms during the whole transition period in the 1980s will help to understand China's economic and agricultural reform and offer some successful experiences to other...

We analyze the connotation and significance of food defense, and introduce the principles and steps of establishment and application of food defense plan. Finally, we prospect the development directions of food defense in China

This paper examines factors that shape people’s perceptions of government corruption in China. We are particularly interested in how people acquire information on local corruption, given the general lack of pertinent first-hand experience. We combine the data from a national survey in Mainland...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a theoretical framework to examine popular democratic conceptions in societies with limited experiences of democratic politics. Second, following this framework, we use new survey instruments to investigate the origins and consequences of...

This paper examines the robustness of Chinese college freshmen’s self-reported trust in their political incumbents and institutions, as well as their support to the Chinese political system, under different experimental conditions. More specifically, this paper scrutinizes the possible...