The article focuses on the two major actors in the Chinese economic system - the local economic supervisory bureaucracies, such as tax and industrial bureaus, and their subordinate enterprises. It then goes on to describe the reasons for and the specific forms of their behavioural patterns. It...

This paper investigates the worldwide phenomenon of "political divergence'' between the East and the West. During the 8th to 10th centuries, Western Europe and China both achieved political stability, but they did so through dramatically different routes. Western Europe developed parliamentary...