Local fiscal constraints have the potential to challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s continued drive for grassroots-level social...

Indiscriminate mass attacks have been increasing in China since at least 2000, with 2024 clocking in as the bloodiest year on record....

This article analyzes how central-local relations have evolved in Xi Jinping’s China from the perspective of elite politics, focusing on...

Survey research in China has long suffered from two core problems—difficulties in obtaining reliable representative samples and...

China has two security services responsible for domestic surveillance. The “political security protection” bureau of the Ministry of...

Minxin Pei. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2024....

Although Xi Jinping is widely seen, both inside and outside of China, as a vigorous centralizer of political power, the party-state...

Josh Chin and Liza Lin. Surveillance State: China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. St. Martin’s Press. Sept. 2022. Insights...