The Village Election Caught Up in a Road-building Project:Collective Action Involving a Dual Choice

This paper will follow the basic analyti-cal logic of collective action theory in itsresearch, taking as an example an electionand the building of a road in a village in HebeiProvince. The research addresses the issueof what changes take place in the logic anddynamic mechanism of a collective action     

A SKETCH OF CALLIGRAPHER ZHANG QINGTAO

l've got acquainted with Zhang Qingtao for 15 years. We met occasionally at a chophouse in Beijing when I visited a calligraphy show held in Beijing by Liaoning Provincial Calligraphy Society. Zhang was born in a scholarship family and grew up with edification of traditional culture. He loved calligraphy from his childhood. He was once a teacher in a middle     

Personnel Reform in Grassroots Courts

Under present conditions in China, the staffing formula for the number of judges in a court is closely related to the reduction of their numbers, but not to this variable alone. For a particular court, how many judges are needed is decided by two factors: one is the number of cases received in a year; the otheris the number of cases handled by one judge in a year. In a static state,     

An Ecological Analysis of Literary Discourse in Contemporary Han Chinese

As a world of meaning, a piece of literary work is structured by a system of organized discourse, and literary discourse grows in specific ecological environments. This is to say that the meaning of literature is generated in the ecosystem of discourse in which it exists. And so any cognition and interpretation of the meaning of a given piece of literary work,     

Build Up an Opening Economy in Dandong

Dandong is not only a coastal city but also a frontier city in northeast area. At present, a railway through the northeast area has been under the construction. The expressway from Dandong to Tonghua and to Haicheng will be soon on the construction. The expressway from Dandong to Dalian will be finished recently. In the near future, Dandong will be of the regional traffic hub. Dandong is rich in resources, solid in industrial base, perfect in basic establishment, particular in touring resou…     

Buddha Images on Coin-growing Trees Excavated in Sichuan Prov-ince and the Utensils Unearthed from the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze

Up to now, the earliest Buddhist statuesfrom the South that are known to us appearin the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220AD) and Shu-Han regime (221-263AD)in today’s Sichuan Province. One kind wasfirst discovered in 1940 above the door andat the lintel of the door in the back room ofthe cliff tombs in Mahao and Shiziwan inLeshan areas. It shows a kind of high reliefBuddhist sculpture in the sitting posture withcircular halos, a garment draped over theshoulders, a wuwei seal in t…     

Who Once Fought In Liaoyang

Liaoyang, once a political, economic and cultural center in Northeast China, was a military important town, where many battles happened in its 2400-year history.     

Introduction: Legal Transplantation in Contemporary China

Putting a socialist legal system in place in China since the 1980s has been a process of "legal transplantation," one which was in fact rooted in the legal reforms of the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). While widely subscribed to in legal scholarship, the farreaching impact of this transplantation has lacked careful theoretical reflection. This     

An Evaluation of Adjustments to the Grain Trade Policy and the Risks Involved in a Grain Embargo

The historical experience of industrialization in some countries hasdemonstrated that given certain conditions in relation to resources, suchas a low average area of cultivated land per capita, economic growth andstructural transformation will result in the decline of the comparativesuperiority of grain production. When this process advances to a criticallevel, the selection of a grain policy becomes a question of whether or notto support the continued growth of the national economy by increasi…