The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present. Based on the author's research in China for over three decades, China's Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its 'reform and open door' policy...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- China's reforms : overview and a view from below -- Development strategy and the countryside -- The hela, wuxi : transformation of the land of rice and fish -- State and party : agencies of reforms -- Local state and the agency trap -- The party and its...