ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview of the publishing environment in the 1980s, with specific focus on the series craze, and discusses some journals with which the Chinese Economic System Reform Research Institute (SRI) was involved. In the 1980s the SRI and its various associational and publishing activities started a process of attempting to create a way to discuss, research, and write on any number of issues facing contemporary China without having to submit to, or be absorbed by, a politicized bureaucracy. The chapter looks at how the efforts of the 1980s continued in the 1990s. It discusses the establishment of Unirule Economic Research Institute in 1993 and selected nongovernmental journals that emerged in the mid-1990s. Unirule’s research scope is largely economic, though it continues to broaden the scope of research and discussion to include political, social, and constitutional issues China faces in its transition.
