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Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialization,1978-94

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Dic Lo

    1. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies on the Chinese Economy (STCE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Overview

    1. Overview

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 1-12

  3. Theoretical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Towards an Alternative Perspective on Systemic Transformation

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 15-52

  4. Explaining China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Chinese Industrialization in Structuralist Perspective

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 55-87

    3. (Re)interpreting Chinese Enterprise Reform

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 88-118

    4. Testing Alternative Explanations of Growth

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 119-144

  5. Sector Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Electronics Industry: State Industrial Policy and Development

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 147-171

    3. The Motor Industry: Institutional Reform and Development

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 172-198

    4. Conclusions

      • Dic Lo
      Pages 199-204

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-236
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About this book

There is now a vast and still rapidly expanding literature of scholarly studies on the Chinese experience of economic growth and systemic transformation over the past 16 years. By and large, most of the studies tend to conceptualize the experience as a process of transition to the market economy. This position applies to even the moderate, evolutionary economists, who, thanks to the overwhelming evidence of the heterodox nature of the experience, have seemd to outcompete outright free-market advocates and have dominated the literature. In contrast to the market-centred orthodoxy, this book develops an alternative interpretation that is in the tradition of the late industrialization literature. Based on a wealth of evidence and well-articulated theoretical arguments, it submits that the outstanding performance of the Chinese economy during the period of 1978-94 was based on an appropriate combination of market and (non-market) institutional regulation.

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'This book is an exceptionally ambitious effort to reinterpret China's recent growth...Lo is to be congratulated on his reinterpretation of the Chinese experience. While somewhat critical of the neoclassical approach, the study draws productively from the literature on late industrialization and structuralist thought. It also attempts to design and test propositions developed from the theoretical arguments, examining these agains the Chinese data. The whole book is nicely organized and well written...The alternative views offered in the study are original and insightful...interesting and stimulating reading for scholars and students who wish to understand the Chinese experience beyond the usual economic framework.' - Yiping Huang, China Journal

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  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

    Dic Lo

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