The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development. They will play a key role in maintaining Ch

This book illustrates the decline of the state-encouraged revival and legitimization of private enterprises in 1980s China. Chen argues that the rapid growth of

Based on Party and state documents, Chinese newspaper reports and surveys, the Chinese and Western scholarly literature and the author's own fieldwork, this imp

Focusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.

The Chinese economy is currently undergoing an institutional transformation as profound as the replacement of the people's communes with the household responsib