1. Culture, ritual and economic style -- 2. The Chinese ritual economy as historical type -- 3. Institutions, ideas and ritual in the modern Chinese political economy -- 4. Local state, ritual and territorial competition -- 5. The ritual foundations of markets -- 6. Chinese enterprise,...

This paper attempts to give a comprehensive account of the cultural embeddedness of the contemporary Chinese economy. Although culture has been revived as a category in economics recently, there is still no methodological basis in the cultural sciences properly speaking. I confront "rule...