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...

The article focuses on the two major actors in the Chinese economic system - the local economic supervisory bureaucracies, such as tax and industrial bureaus, and their subordinate enterprises. It then goes on to describe the reasons for and the specific forms of their behavioural patterns. It...