Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie ...

Throughout China the formation ofguanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental ...

Examines the decline of central planning in post-Mao China.

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying ...

A look at the economy, gender, social networks, and the effects of the Chinese diaspora in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from a systematic institutional approach.

Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) is one of the major dynamics of Chinese society. It has been a pervasive part of the Chinese business world for the last few centuries. It ...

DIVChina Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly ...

"A fantastic collection of essays---one of the few edited volumes I have seen where the whole is much greater than the sum of the individual parts. One of the book's strengths ...

The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making ...

One of the most important outcomes of market reforms in China over the past 20 years has been the emergence of a significant domestic private sector, which now accounts for ...