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Informationen zum Autor Qi Zhang is Associate Professor at the China Center for Economic Studies in the School of Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University and another Ph.D. in Economics at Peking University, Beijing. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including Political Behaviour, the Journal of Contemporary China, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. Mingxing Liu is Professor at the China Institute for Educational Finance Research at Peking University, Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Peking University in China. He has published numerous academic articles in leading journals, including the American Political Science Review and Comparative Politics. Klappentext Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a theory of localized property-rights protection under authoritarianism. It is a must-read to those who are interested in how politics would impact the legal and institutional environment of doing business in developing countries in general! and in China in particular. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Revolutionary history in Zhejiang province and its political consequences; 3. The dog that did not bark: grassroots resistance to socialist agricultural collectivization; 4. United in the cultural revolution: the return of capitalism; 5. Capitalism with Zhejiang characteristics: crossing the river by feeling for the stones; 6. Beyond Zhejiang: the Zhejiang model versus Jiangsu province; 7. Discussion and conclusions: rethinking the power structure, the government-business relationship, and the future of the private economy; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
