This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i translates three articles that reflect on the relationship between economic and political reform from different perspectives. Hu Angang, a well-known and prolific writer on economic and political matters at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has long worried...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i presents two research reports on the development of the private economy in Zhejiang province and on efforts to define the phenomenon in Marxist terms and bring it under party control. The first is a two-part investigation study done by researchers at the...

Over the past decade or so there has been a profound structural change in the world economy as the nations of Asia have forged ahead at rates far exceeding those of the United States and Europe. This economic transformation has been led by Japan, but the "our dragons" of Taiwan, South Korea,...

The report that is translated in this and the next issue of iChinese Economic Studies/i by Wang Shaoguang and Hu Angang has been one of the most influential and controversial documents written about the Chinese economy in recent years. Wang Shaoguang, professor of Political Science at Yale...

Fiscal reform has been at the center of many debates in recent years in China, particularly the debates concerning centralâlocal relations. Beginning in 1994, China began to implement a "tax-sharing system" to replace the fiscal contracting system it had employed throughout the reform era. The...

With the recent convening of the Fifteenth Party Congress, the issue of reforming China's state-owned enterprises has again received extensive coverage in the public media. There has been much talk of "privatization." The two speeches translated here, in this first of a two-part issue on China's...

The two articles translated in this issue of iChinese Economic Studies/i represent efforts by some of China's leading economic thinkers to explain the reform process and the problems that it faces in the post-Tiananmen period. The first article, by Lin Yifu, Cai Fang, and Li Zhou, enters the...

Between the beginning of 1995 and September 1997, when the Fifteenth Party Congress was convened in Beijing, Chinese political waters were roiled by the exchange of heated polemics as political leaders jockeyed for position and tried to influence the outcome of the congress. This was a period of...

This second part of a two-part issue on China's private economy in iThe Chinese Economy/i introduces readers to some of the range of debate that has developed in recent years around the rapid development of the private economy. Although economic trends suggest that the private economy will...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i considers the social impact of economic reform in recent years. This has become a hot topic in Chinese society lately, as people from very different perspectives debate what is happening in Chinese society. The source of all three articles translated in this...