ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have documented the development and dynamism of the rural industrial and artisan sectors in several Dongyang communities under recent Chinese market-oriented reforms. The enterprises of such sectors have also figured prominently in recent theoretical discussions of economic development as models for industrial organization under contemporary world market conditions said to favor so-called flexible specialization (Piore and Sabel 1984), flexible production (Dirlik 1994), or flexible accumulation (Harvey 1990). In this chapter, we turn to examine Dongyang county's recent development experience in light of those discussions.
