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 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. This book develops an alternative to the local government state model and emphasises instead the State's dynamic, entrepreneurial role in the process of economic reform.
Author(s): Jane Duckett
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 288
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Series editor's preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction: market reform and the state......Page 16
1 The Chinese state from plan to market......Page 34
2 Tianjin: the government of a city under reform......Page 60
3 The state administration of real estate and its reform......Page 86
4 Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments......Page 104
5 The state administration of commerce and its reform......Page 125
6 The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments......Page 147
7 China's entrepreneurial state......Page 166
Appendices......Page 190
Glossary of translated terms......Page 200
Notes......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 261
Index......Page 276
