Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province (China Policy Series) - Hardcover

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415460336 ISBN 13: 9780415460330

Verlag: Routledge, 2008

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'The work is particularly valuable to ‘China-watchers’ as there is not a great deal available in English on this province of the PRC. The book is quite short, 144 detailed pages [excluding tables etc.,] set out in 11 chapters but the author writes very lucidly and indeed tells the tale very well. It can be thus recommended as a useful source for graduate students and researchers interested in China. It is, however, at the cover-price essentially at best a library-purchase.' - Malcolm Warner, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Asia Pacific Business Review, 2010

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This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an economic, political, and social nature that have received great attention from Beijing, in particular the "small government, big society" project. This book provides a full account of this transition, showing how Hainan casts important light on a number of highly topical issues in contemporary China studies: central-local relations, institutional reform, state-society relations, and economic development strategies. It provides detailed evidence of how relations between party cadres, state bureaucrats, businesses, foreign investors and civil society play out in practice in China today. It argues that despite the liberalization of recent years, especially in the economic sphere, the party state remains the most powerful actor in Chinese society, and that path-breaking reform experiments such as in Hainan remain highly vulnerable due to the central government’s hesitation to commit the resources and unequivocal political support needed for the experiments to be successfully realized.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415460336
• ISBN 13: 9780415460330
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208