Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of

Uses the framework of 'market in state', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.

The short essays in this volume, contributed by leading experts on Chinese economic policy, provide crisp and insightful analyses of the Chinese state's approac

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest