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This dissertation studies the governance structure and its economic impacts in the Chinese context. Specifically, I use a public choice framework to analyze how institutions influence economic and political activities of both public officials and private sectors. Chapter 1employ…

This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus especially on the construction of so-called Workers’ New …