The entrepreneurial state in China : real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin /

Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment...

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Main Author: Duckett, Jane, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998
Series:Routledge studies--China in transition ; 5.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Introduction Introduction: market reform and the state. 1. The Chinese state from plan to market. 2. Tianjin: the government of a city under reform pt. II. Case studies in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism. 3. The state administration of real estate and its reform. 4. Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments. 5. The state administration of commerce and its reform. 6. The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments pt. III. Conclusion. 7. China's entrepreneurial state.