This article examines the evolution of the effort to intro-duce a civil service system in China. It
began with the proposal in Zhao Ziyang's Report to the 13th Congress of the Communist …

The uprising of the spontaneous movements for liberty and democracy in China in the late
1970s, and again in the late 1980s, reflected the frustration of many people. As frustration …

A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China's
outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in …

For more than a decade China has been in the throes of reforming its management and
personnel system. With the proclamation of the first general law concerning the civil service …

Since 1980, in their pursuit of economic development, reformist Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) leaders have decentralized personnel administration and transferred formal authority …

This chapter examines the development and reform of the civil service in China from 1978,
when the country adopted an open and reform policy and shifted the focus from class …

The Chinese party-state is restructuring its governing institutions, and is reinventing itself in
the process. China is not only remaking its public management, but it is also restructuring its …

In August 1993, Chinese authorities announced that they would implement. a new civil
service system to manage the now 5.5 million administrators, managers, and professionals …

In examining how Chinese policy makers and law drafters defined problems and formulated
solutions, this article seeks to address two questions. First, the authors consider the extent to …

Like all traditional communist countries, China is run by a gigantic bureaucracy–a
bureaucracy whose features are ill defined. For one thing, it encompasses all of what we in …