![]() ![]() The book portrays an innovative pattern of legislative development, sums up pragmatic local strategies for market creation, and identifies multiple dynamics for promoting accountability and democracy. Through in depth and first hand research, the author provides a comprehensive explanation about why the provincial legislatures have acquired institutional maturation and expanded power in the context of Chinese transitional political economy. As the first systemic and theoretical study of China’s provincial legislatures, it draws our attention to one of the most promising growth points in China’s changing constitutional order. The People’s Congresses and Governance in China presents a complex but convincing analysis of the transformation of governance in China. Ming Xia, The People’s Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance (Routledge, 2008). He has published dozens of articles and frequently commented on U.S.-China trade and financial relations, political economy in China, organized crime, global issues and globalization. He is also an associate editor for The Journal of Modern China ( Dangdai Zhongguo Yanjiu). He maintains a column on China in Perspective magazine and contributes regularly to the BBC World News Chinese Service. ![]() ![]() He is a co-producer of an HBO Oscar-nominated documentary movie, “China’s Unnatural Disaster, The Tears of Sichuan Province” (2009), which also won 2011 CINE Golden Eagle award. He was included to the “Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals” of 20. He is the author of The Dual Developmental State (Ashgate 2000) and The People’s Congresses and Governance in China (Routledge 2008 paperback edition 2011) co-editor of The Crown of Thorn: Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize (Hong Kong: Morning Bell Publisher, 2010). He once taught at Fudan University and served as a residential fellow at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University(2003), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004) and the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore (20). degree from Temple University, where his dissertation won the Bernard Watson Best Dissertation Award in 1997. Xia received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of International Politics, Fudan University, China. ![]()
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