The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform: The Road to Crisis

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Road to Crisis: The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Central Planning and Local Participation under Mao: the Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants....Pages 23-49
Macroeconomic Management and System Reform in China....Pages 50-82
The Changing Role of the State in Chinese Agriculture....Pages 83-102
A Soviet Specialist’s View of the Chinese Economic Reforms....Pages 103-118
The Impact of the Open Door Policy on the Chinese State....Pages 119-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Much Ado About Nothing: Party Reform in the 1980s....Pages 149-174
A Janus-Faced Army? The Military and Reform Policies in the PRC....Pages 175-189
The Law, the State and Economic Reform....Pages 190-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Basic-Level Local Government and Economic Reform in Urban China....Pages 215-242
Political Institutionalisation at the Basic Level of Government and Below in China....Pages 243-264
Development State, Entrepreneurial State: The Political Economy of Socialist Reform in Xinju Municipality and Guanghan County....Pages 265-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
The State and the Single-Child Policy....Pages 295-317
Privatisation and Politics in Rural China....Pages 318-341
Back Matter....Pages 342-345