ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 25.1 Reorienting Bureaucracy in the PRC ....................................................................410 25.1.1 Global Market-Oriented Bureaucracy ....................................................410 25.1.1.1 WTO and Increased Foreign Investment ...............................412 25.1.1.2 Transnational Behavioral Competence ...................................412 25.1.1.3 Employment Aspirations ........................................................412 25.1.2 Decentralized Bureaucracy .....................................................................413 25.1.2.1 Decentralization and Productive Ventures .............................414 25.1.2.2 Decentralization and Trade and Commerce ..........................415 25.1.2.3 Decentralization and Fiscal Relations ....................................416 25.1.2.4 Decentralization and Labor Mobility ....................................418 25.1.2.5 Decentralization: Overall Directions .....................................419 25.1.3 Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy .................................................................. 420 25.1.3.1 Types and Scope of Public Entrepreneurship .........................421 25.1.3.2 Public Entrepreneurship: Earnings as Incentives ................... 422
25.1.3.3 Negative Consequences of the Emphasis on Public Entrepreneurship .................................................................. 423
25.2 Conclusion .......................................................................................................... 424 Notes ............................................................................................................................. 424 References ...................................................................................................................... 428
Bureaucracy in China has a rich and varied history. Upon its classical and Maoist legacies (see Harding, 1981; Chow, 2002:10-11, 368), the reopening of the China Mainland under Deng Xiao-ping invited the synergetic superimposition of a new wave of externally inspired and indigenous initiatives. Market-based globalization, decentralization, and public entrepreneurship constitute defi ning components of China’s latest bureaucratic transformation.
