The Nie Lei Company was a powerful and influential organized crime group in the Chinese city of Qingdao until a concerted state operation closed it down in 2010. This paper looks at the group's legacy on the political-criminal nexus in China. Despite the collapse of the powerful Nie Lei Company...

"Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with...