Table of Contents

Introduction: Remaking the Chinese state PART I Political strategies in the reform era 1 Rationalizing the Chinese state: The political economy of government reform 2 Reappraising central–local relations in Deng’s China: Decentralization, dilemmas of control, and diluted effects of reform 3 China’s agricultural reforms: A twenty-year retrospective PART II The social consequences of economic reform 4 Clashes between reform and opening: Labor market formation in three cities 5 The interdependence of state and society: The political sociology of local leadership 6 The reform of state-owned enterprises in mainland China: A societal perspective PART III Foreign policy and security issues 7 Reform and Chinese foreign policy 8 Twenty years of Chinese reform: The case of non-proliferation policy 9 Soldiers of fortune, soldiers of misfortune: Commercialization and divestiture of the Chinese military–business complex, 1978–99 10 Confidence-building measures and the People’s Liberation Army 11 The possibility of cross-Strait political negotiations

About the Author

Chien-min Chao is Professor and Director of the Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has published widely on Chinese politics. Bruce J. Dickson is Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs, and Associate Professor in Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University

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Remaking the Chinese State provide a thought-provoking basis from which to move forward."
-Journal of Asian Studies