This chapter examines the profile and behaviors of family businesses (getihu) in a rural periodical market in Yunnan Province. Focus is on the risk avoidance strategy adopted by family business. C. Geertz's study on the bazaar economy in Java is used as a reference framework. From the analysis...

This paper examines the mechanism of household income generation, and the determinants of access to economic opportunities after the economic reform, using household surveys in five administrative villages in China. It was found that in the process of marketization in rural China, both the...

Expressions of the flows of atoms A and B of a binary system in a crystal are derived as the response to the imposed gradients of temperature and chemical potentials. The formulation is done using the pair approximation of the Path Probability Method of irreversible statistical mechanics and...

Using a 2006 household survey from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China, this paper examines two aspects of the correlation between ethnicity and income: namely, differences in the returns to human capital and the effects of ethnicity- and religion-related social capital. The findings...