ABSTRACT

Focusing on the role of provincial leadership in the initiation and implementation of economic reform, this text studies economic decentralization in eight Chinese provinces. In each area, resource allocation and acquisition of foreign capital and investment are investigated.

chapter |44 pages

Introduction

Provincial Leadership and Economic Reform in Post-Mao China

part I|204 pages

Provincial Reform Strategy and Policy Toward Resource Allocation

chapter 1|40 pages

Shanghai's Big Turnaround since 1985

Leadership, Reform Strategy, and Resource Mobilization

chapter 3|67 pages

The Political Economy of Post-Mao Zhejiang

Rapid Growth and Hesitant Reform

chapter 4|39 pages

One Step Behind

Shaanxi in Reform, 1978–1995

part II|178 pages

Provincial Reform Strategy and Policy Toward Foreign Capital Investment

chapter 5|49 pages

Shandong's Strategies of Reform in Foreign Economic Relations

Preferential Policies, Entrepreneurial Leadership, and External Linkages

chapter 7|30 pages

Hainan Province in Reform

Political Dependence and Economic Interdependence

chapter |17 pages

Conclusion Provincial Leadership and Reform

Lessons and Implications for Chinese Politics