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These essays address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured command system.
List of contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Policy Making and Policy Conflict over Reform, 1. Economic Reform via Reformulation: Where Do Rightist Ideas Come From?, 2. The Fifth National People's Congress and the Process of Policy Making: Reform, Readjustment, and the Opposition, Part II: Experiments in the Urban State Economic Bureaucracy, 3. Commercial Reform and State Control: Structural Changes in Chinese Trade, 1981-83, 4. China's New Economic Policies and the Local Industrial Political Process: The Case of Wuhan, 5. Urban Reform and Relational Contracting in Post-Mao China: An Interpretation of the Transition from Plan to Market, 6. Capitalist Measures with Chinese Characteristics, Part III: Reforms in Restructuring Regions, 7. Uncertain Paternalism: Tensions in Recent Regional Restructuring in China, 8. City, Province, and Region: The Case of Wuhan, 9. The Place of the Central City in China's Economic Reform: From Hierarchy to Network?, Part IV: State Cadres and Urban Entrepreneurs, 10. The Petty Private Sector and the Three Lines in the Early 1980s, 11. Urban Entrepreneurs and the State: The Merger of State and Society, Afterword, Index
Summary
These essays address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured command system.
