Princeton Studies in Contemporary China³

Mary Gallagher and Yu Xie, Series Editors

The Princeton Studies in Contemporary China aims to publish books from leading scholars across the social sciences that examine a wide range of critical issues in contemporary China, including social inequality, family, government, education, health care, aging, migration, environment, religion, urban development, and culture.

Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
Xuefei Ren
Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use...
China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development
Kyle A. Jaros
The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and...
The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
Ya-Wen Lei
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere...