In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China

by Howell Xiaoyuan White, Shang Xiaoyuan, Gordon White

Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. China's reformers have highlighted the need to curb the awesome power of the Leninist state and change the balance of power between state and economy, state and society. In practice, the economic reforms have set in train a process of potentially fundamental social and institutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198289561
• ISBN13: 9780198289562
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 121.00 lbs.