by Kuran, this paper attempts an analysis of the cultural foundations of recent Chinese economic development. I argue … focus on three phenomena that stand at the center of economic culture in China, networks, localism and modernism. I eschew … center, which in contemporary China builds on the worldview of modernism. Thus, economic modernization is a cultural …

by Kuran, this paper attempts an analysis of the cultural foundations of recent Chinese economic development. I argue … phenomenon of localism in China, which I relate to other cultural phenomena, in particular networks, culturalism and modernism …