Allies of the State: China's Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change

by Bruce J. Dickson and Jie Chen

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson draw on extensive fieldwork as they explore the extent to which China's private sector supports democracy, surveying more than 2,000 entrepreneurs in five coastal provinces with over 70 percent of China's private enterprises. The authors examine who the private entrepreneurs are, how the party-state shapes this group, and what their relationship to the state is. China's entrepreneurs are closely tied to the state through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048962
• ISBN13: 9780674048966
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.7"