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1. Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency

   A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan

   Edited by Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, Chih-jou Jay Chen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital. Data are drawn from national representative samples of the United States, China and Taiwan. The three societies selected for study allow the examination of how...

   To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Transforming Rural China

   How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China

   By Chih-Jou Jay Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge