LAWRENCE — When University of Kansas professor John James Kennedy began working in rural China, he would get introduced to villagers with...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with John James Kennedy, associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas, whose work in...

"It sounds like the plot of a mystery novel. A controversial one-child policy that resulted in as many as 60 million "missing girls" in...

The ability of local governments to raise revenues has been dramatically altered over the last several decades in rural China, and this...

This book will be released in spring of 2019. Available for pre-order from Oxford University Press here. Description: In 1979, the...