The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a common institutional framework for worldwide trade in goods and services. In anti-dumping area the U.S. and the European Union (EU) always consider China as non-market economy (NME), which results China suffering a greater loss compared with treating China...

The national security review mechanisms for foreign investments in China are influenced strongly by cross-border factors. Since China’s reform and opening-up, China national security review mechanisms for foreign investment have gone through four phases. The beginning phase is from 1979 to...

The paper focuses on the settlement of labor dispute through mediation and arbitration in China. In Section I the paper talks about the labor dispute in China with the statistics analysis about labor disputes in China, including collective disputes. And the paper analyzes the reasons behind...

This paper provides technical details and user guidance on the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations (RICF), a database of Chinese foundations, civil society, and social development in general. The structure of the RICF is deliberately designed and normalized according to the Three...

The 1982 Constitution of the People's Republic of China (PRC Constitution) Article 18 introduced for the first-time principles of openness and protection for foreign enterprises while sanctioning general limitations for foreign investors such as compliance with domestic laws. China's policy...

How are political elites embedded in both civil and political domains? I studied 246 Chinese political elites who also served on nonprofit foundations' boards from 2011 to 2015 and conceptualized a framework to understand the state-nonprofit relationship before 2015. The political elites can...