This paper examines the fundamental logic that shaped the Chinese administrative reforms
during the past three decades from the perspective of the “double movements” …

Though Mao sought to remedy the ills of bureaucratism through permanent revolution and
new modes of organization, by the time of his death China had “one of the most …

The Chinese administrative system has been periodically reformed since the early 1980s.
This article mainly focuses on the reforms of the State Council, the central government of …

In order to prevent economic or political crises in the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership
decided to resume economic reforms. In 1992, China declared that a market economy was …

The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of
modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in …

The current administrative governance reform is a major political breakthrough that goes
along with the economic rationalization or the so-called “new normal.” The introduction of …

Since the early 1980s, the Chinese authorities have tried to overhaul the country's obsolete
command economy but have achieved only marginal results. In 1992, a new round of …

This paper analyses the political logic of China's state institutional reform during the time of
economic globalization. It focuses on the dismemberment of China's top central economic …

The impact of more than two decades of reform in China has become a familiar story, so
familiar in fact that it is easy to lose sight of how spectacular and sweeping the changes …

Summary The reform of what is seen as an inefficient and overpoliticised administration is
now seen as an essential complement to the ongoing process of administrative reform in …