China’s rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform. In the post-Mao…

Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception. Demographics show that countries in East Asia either have the…

The search for good governance has become an increasingly important element of public policy and public management and is high on the political agenda of…

Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration…

Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over…