1st Edition
China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl
By Neil C. Hughes
Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization by showing: (1) what is happening to the industrial forces that help shape the economy; (2) how economic agents have behaved; (3) what government intentions really are; and (4) how the transition from a centralized to a market-oriented economy has been filled with contradictions and difficult choices. The author... Read more
Chapter 1 Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl; Chapter 2 Like Stones Dropped in the Sea; Chapter 3 The Good Earth; Chapter 4 Cities Without Walls; Chapter 5 The Three Gorges Dam Revisited; Chapter 6 Cyberspace Gatekeeper; Chapter 7 From Dragon Robe to Business Suit;
Biography
Neil Hughes has spent thirty-two years working in twenty-five countries as an industrial and financial specialist and project manager with the World Bank. During 1992–2002, he helped Chinese officials and state enterprise managers implement economic reforms and restructure enterprises. He has an M.A. in international economics and politics from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, an M.A. in anthropology from The George Washington University and a B.A. in history from The College of Wooster.
