As China enters the stage of economic and social reform, some people think that the introduction of markets will somehow weaken or reduce the power of government over society. Popular indeed is the view that the market equals "anarchism" (iwuzhengfu/i). Establishing the market mechanism does...

The primary purpose of this paper is not to seek some better road to reform, but to arrive at a systematic understanding of the various problems and phenomena that have emerged in the process of reform. In theory, to analyze and understand something involves nothing more or less than stripping...

A characteristic of China's "gradualistic" reform is that it starts first by trying not to confront many vested interests or to undertake any fundamental, radical restructuring of the old system, but rather to develop a new system alongside (or on the "margins" of) the old system. Therefore,...