The Entrepreneurial State in China : Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin

ISBN-13: 9780415187411 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 288 str.

Jane Duckett

Opis

China's economic reforms are now the subject of intense interest. One of the least expected developments, however, has so far passed with little comment. From the late 1990s, the Chinese state went into business. Jane Duckett describes in detail the new state business activities 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 of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity in China with implications for our understanding of the Chinese state. Jane Duckett develops an alternative to the local development state model which emphasizes instead its dynamic, entrepreneurial role in the process of economic reform.

Spis treści

Tables Figures Abbreviations Glossary of Translated Terms Acknowledgements Introduction Introduction: Market Reform and the State 1. The Chinese State from Plan to Market 2. Tianjin: the Government of a City Under Reform 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 Real Estate Management Departments 5. The State Administration of Commerce and its Reform 6. The Encroaching Market: Entrepreneurialism in Commerce Departments Conclusion 7. Conclusion: The Entrepreneurial State Appendices A. Methodological Notes B. Tianjin

O autorze

Jane Duckett