This chapter demonstrates that current studies have depicted the Chinese state in three
major forms: an authoritarian state, a developmental state and a corporatist state. However …

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a
top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the …

This book examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's
reform process--labor market development, changing industrial relations, the altered role of …

This essay outlines the three stages of Chinese capitalist development in the 1980s through
the 2000s and discusses how labor politics played out differently in each of the three stages …

That the Chinese socialist state, like socialist states elsewhere, proclaims itself a “workers'
state” and a dictatorship of the proletariat speaks volumes about labor's role in post-1949 …

Observers of Chinese politics often are impressed by its vast diversity and its conflicting
images. These conflicting images are found not only in analyses of the Chinese communist …

As China's reforms take root, citizens are allowed, even encouraged, to be socialist and
profit-driven at the same time. This book examines this precarious dyad, demonstrating what …

This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers' protests against
privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have …

China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is
a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Their success has been phenomenal …

Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state
power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the continuing economic successes …