Introduction -- Market, state and capitalism: theories of political economy and China -- Market in state: a theory of Chinese political economy -- The state and market in imperial China -- Origins of the modern Chinese political economy: geopolitics, mobilization, and state building --...

"Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process in the last decade. However, as a major root of social and economic change, little has been discussed beyond a description of SOEs' shortcomings and their...

Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese economy. These are, namely, a free market...