1st Edition
Rural Roots of Reform Before China's Conservative Change
Prologue: Local-Political Growth, Behavioral Periodization, Policy Reactions
1. Farmers Start the End of the Centralist Revolution
2. Ex-Peasant Industrialists End Most Socialist Planning
3. Varied Managers Reform China’s Power Structure
4. Countryside Businesspeople Modernize China’s Markets
5. Rural Leaders Beat Urban Planners
6. Tax Collectors and Subsidizers Shape Central-Local Relations
7. Budgeteers Face the 1980s Crisis
8. Owners Manage Urban Corruptions and Companies
9. Bankers Arrange Credit, Savings, and Depreciation
10. Technicians Innovate to Sell Quality Products
11. Long-Distance Traders and Jiangnan Regionalists Create New Markets
12. Service Providers Rule Collective and Private Enterprises
13. Migrants Staff China’s Reform Economy
Epilogue: Local and Medial Powers, not just Central Powers; Situations, not just Ideas
Biography
Lynn T. White III is an emeritus professor and senior research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Department, and East Asian Studies Program of Princeton University.
