Ran Wei is Lecturer in Urban Studies at the School of Public Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China, and Visiting Fellow at…

Yu Luo is Associate Professor of anthropology and the Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair in Contemporary China Studies at the University of Puget Sound, Washington, United…

Xuan Wen is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Chongqing Technology and Business University, China (wenxuan@ctbu.edu.cn). Introduction In the context of modernisation and development…

Pierre Miège is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (miege@hotmail.com). Introduction  Over the past…

Mengzhen Du is a PhD candidate at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, No. 38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, China (1120231141@mail.nankai.edu.cn)….

Introduction The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policymaking and implementation processes are often opaque, as is the process of policy innovation and diffusion. Some scholars have…