Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

This book, The Nature, the Performance, and the Reform of State-owned Enterprises, provides a detailed description about State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and distribution. It not only proves that the so-called state ownership which characterizes state-owned...