A Vision of Modernity: Menglong Poetry from 1978-1983 -- Guanxi (关系) Dynamism: The Changing Role of Guanxi in Eastern Chinese villages -- Enshrining a “National Hero”: Contending Visions and Distorted Memories of the Blue Glow Palace in Twentieth-century Taiwan -- Corporatist Representation via People’s Congress: An Aspect of the State-society Relationship in Contemporary China -- Development of Community-Based Social Service Organizations in Contemporary China -- A Chinese approach to land rights: Property law and Chongqing's policy experiment on urban-rural integration -- Challenges Facing China’s Urban Development in the New Era -- Death Penalty in China and Its Impact on Sino-Canadian Criminal Justice Cooperation -- Educational Equity in the Access to Post-secondary Education A Comparison of Ethnic Minorities in China with Aboriginals in Canada -- Changing practices and shifting perceptions: Chinese immigrants “integrating” into the engineering profession in Canada -- Toronto’s Literary Chinatowns: The Construction of Chinese Canadian Identities -- Building Shanghai as an International City: Best practice -- Access, Assurance and Acceptance: Moving beyond the status-quo/revisionist power debate in investigating China’s emerging foreign policy strategy -- Orbits of Influence: The Sino-Indian Waltz in South/Southeast Asian New Regionalism -- Development Cooperation in an Era of Chinese Involvement: The Case of Rice Projects in Mali.