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This article addresses the following questions: How does the South China Sea matter to the European Union? What roles could the EU play in the governance of the South China Sea? In particular, how could the EU effectively engage with China in the South China Sea? The article provides an analysis of the legal basis and policy background for the EU's involvement in the South China Sea governance and explores the EU's interests in the South China Sea.

The study explores two complimentary aspects in order to obtain a complete picture of the nutritional status of China's population. The first aspect refers to food availability and consumption including the structure of the diet, while the second one deals with the manifestations of malnutrition. Malnutrition in China the result of undernourishment rather than overeating. (DÜI-Sen)

The growth of rural industry in China since 1978 has been explosive. Much of the existing literature explains its growth in terms of changes in economic policy. By means of a combination of privatization, liberalization and fiscal decentralization, it is argued, rural industrialization has taken off. This book takes issue with such claims. Using a newly constructed dataset covering all of China's 2000 plus counties and complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong and Jiangsu, the author demonstrates that history mattered

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Historical Reflections on Grassroots Political Reform in China -- 2. Village Elections, Transparency,and Anticorruption: Henan and Guangdong Provinces -- 3. The Implementation of Village Elections andTax-for-Fee Reform in Rural Northwest China -- 4. Fiscal Crisis in China's Townships:Causes and Consequences -- 5. Direct Township Elections -- 6. The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions of Accountability in Rural China -- 7. Inadvertent Political Reform via Private Associations: Assessing Homeowners' Groups in New Neighborhoods -- 8. Civil Resistance and Rule of Law in China:The Defense of Homeowners' Rights -- 9. "Hope for Protection and Hopeless Choices":Labor Legal Aid in the PRC -- 10. Is Labor a Political Force in China? -- 11. Between Defiance and Obedience:Protest Opportunism in China -- 12. In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Politics in Northwest Yunnan -- 13. Public Opinion Supervision: Possibilities and Limits of the Media in Constraining Local Officials -- Notes -- Contributors.