At the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations and June Fourth crackdown in Beijing, this article examines the legacy of the tumultuous episode unprecedented in the history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and scrutinizes the prospects and challenges in the struggle of...

On July 12, 2016, the lawsuit between the Philippines and China ended with the Final Judgment of the Arbitral Tribunal established under Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - UNCLOS in 1982. The Arbitral Tribunal's ruling supported the majority of the Philippine...

Traditional culture often hinders the implementation of new policies. I investigate whether cultural changes that can modify local norms can aid in policy implementation using the case of rural China. In the early 1970s, China introduced a policy advocating later marriage, which contradicted the...

This study examines the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of state censorship on knowledge production, focusing on the largest book-banning campaign in Chinese history, initiated during the compilation of the 'Siku Quanshu' (Complete Library in Four Sections) between 1772 and 1783....

While Taiwan’s democratization and China’s continuing authoritarianism have often been attributed to the decisions of their leaders, might there, instead, be external factors which have ensured that these two polities would have walked along more or less the same route that they have so far,...

Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers...