The re-emergence of private enterprises is one of the most important factors in China's recent economic development. They will play a key role in maintaining Ch

Based on Party and state documents, Chinese newspaper reports and surveys, the Chinese and Western scholarly literature and the author's own fieldwork, this imp

This book illustrates the decline of the state-encouraged revival and legitimization of private enterprises in 1980s China. Chen argues that the rapid growth of

Focusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.

China's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions o