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The entrepreneurial state in China : real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin / Jane Duckett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies--China in transition ; 5.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203030184
  • 9780203030189
  • 9780415187411
  • 0415187419
  • 9786610603596
  • 6610603596
  • 9781134661756
  • 1134661754
  • 9781134661701
  • 1134661703
  • 9781134661749
  • 1134661746
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entrepreneurial state in China.DDC classification:
  • 338.951 22
LOC classification:
  • HF1604.Z5 T54 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Introduction Introduction: market reform and the state. 1. The Chinese state from plan to market. 2. Tianjin: the government of a city under reform pt. II. Case studies in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism. 3. The state administration of real estate and its reform. 4. Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments. 5. The state administration of commerce and its reform. 6. The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments pt. III. Conclusion. 7. China's entrepreneurial state.
Summary: Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity in.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-262) and index.

pt. I. Introduction Introduction: market reform and the state. 1. The Chinese state from plan to market. 2. Tianjin: the government of a city under reform pt. II. Case studies in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism. 3. The state administration of real estate and its reform. 4. Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments. 5. The state administration of commerce and its reform. 6. The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments pt. III. Conclusion. 7. China's entrepreneurial state.

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Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity in.

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