1st Edition

Changing Central-local Relations In China Reform And State Capacity

By Jia Hao, Lin Zhimin Copyright 1994
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on describing, explaining, and evaluating the changing central-local relationship in China. It presents a comprehensive picture of what has happened in China's central-local relations during the decade-long economic reform, to understand the state of affairs in China.

Introduction 1. Part One: Historical Perspective and Overview China's Central-Local Relationship: A Historical Perspective 2. Market and State: Changing Central-Local Relations in China 3. Institutional Reorganization and Its Impact on Decentralization Part Two: Functional Dimensions 4. Central-Local Fiscal Politics in China 5. Rural Reform and the Rise of Localism 6. Central-Local Relations from the Perspective of State and Non-State Industries 7. Foreign Trade Decentralization and Its Impact on Central-Local Relations Part Three: Regional Differentiation and Case Studies 8. Regional Inequality Variations and Central Government Policy, 1978–1988 9. The Case of Guangdong in Central-Provincial Relations 10. Reform and Shanghai: Changing Central-Local Fiscal Relations

Biography

Jia Hao, a research fellow from the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the George Washington University, is currently President of the Washington Center for China Studies, Inc. Lin Zhimin, from Fudan University (China), earned a Ph.D. in political science at University of Washington and is currently an assistant professor at Valparaiso University.