Many qualitative social scientists conduct single-session interviews with large numbers of
individuals so as to maximize the sample size and obtain a wide range of study participants …

China's urbanization has created a large number of urban villages which, although they
have been transferred to urban administration, have maintained their collective economies …

Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and
overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this …

Gruesome media accounts from both China and abroad on the performance of Chinese
legal institutions, perhaps best exemplified by the Pulitzer Prize winning series on “ragged …

Using a detailed case study of house eviction in peri-urban China as well as original data
from an online survey experiment, this article explores the opportunistic bargaining …

Through a case study of reality TV mediation shows, this article joins the debate about the
recent promotion of formal and informal mediation by the Chinese government, what some …

Six decades of JCR research on negotiation and mediation are celebrated in this article.
Starting with the earliest articles on these topics, we trace the development of recurring …

This book examines the ways in which Confucian political culture operates in contemporary
Chinese politics and influences its development. The author argues that the authoritarian …

Many sociolegal studies have investigated the relationship between state law and informal
law, examining alternative dispute resolution and popular justice as intersections between …

Since the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution decade (1966–1976), post-Mao China has
witnessed a sustained period of unprecedented legal reform. Criminal prosecutions and …