Employment in the Chinese industrial state enterprise sector is multifaceted. The bulk consists of regular state workers. Quite apart from the recent contract workers, however, such employment also consists of members of large and small collectives for which the state enterprises is the patron...

The analysis of Sino-Japanese relations has hitherto been framed largely in bilateral terms. At the present time, however, the rationale for this approach appears to be fading. During the past decade both countries have become enmeshed in extensive international networks involving not only...

Finding the proper balance betweeen central control and local autonomy is a perennial problem in the Chinese economy, and the Chinese fiscal system has undergone numerous changes in central-provincial revenue-sharing arrangements since the 1950s. The author examines the impact of recent changes...

According to the author, the Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958-'59 was the most intense mobilizational phase in the history of the PRC and the most concentrated expression of the utopian Maoist developmental model. Focusing on a single province, Liaoning, he examines the role played by the...