Download or read book The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China written by Morris L. Bian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the U.S.S.R. in the 1950s. Bian shows instead that basic state-owned enterprise—bureaucratic governance, management and incentive mechanisms, and provision of social services and welfare—developed in China during the war years 1937–1945.