Jointly with East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) of Harvard Law School (HLS), the China Project has long supported visiting scholars and occasional research projects in environmental law (e.g., Alford and Shen 1998; Alford and Liebman 2001; see publications).

In 2007 the Project and EALS jointly hosted Ms. HU Yuan, a visiting scholar from the School of Law of Shanghai Jiaotong University, supporting her research on implementation of voluntary agreements for energy efficiency in China, now published in Energy Policy (Hu 2007).

SHEN Yuanyuan and William Alford (HLS) are concluding an interview-based examination of the role of administrative mediation in the resolution of environmental disputes. Complementing earlier legal research in a multi-authored study of rural Anhui noted below (Alford, Weller, et al. 2002), the focus is urban Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

Robert Weller (Boston University, Department of Anthropology) is the author of Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (2006, Cambridge University Press). Weller developed the China parts of Discovering Nature from two past China Project studies he co-led: an inquiry with Peter K. Bol (Harvard East Asian Languages and Civilization) into the cultural history of environment in China (Weller and Bol 1998; see publications), and an interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environment and policy in rural Anhui province, conducted with colleagues in law, political science, economics, and public health (Alford, Weller, et al. 2002).

The China Project also supports occasional visiting scholars and student research projects in other social science fields including political science, urban and regional planning, and education.