Remaking the Chinese State : Strategies, Society, and Security

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Examines topical issues of China's reform process from a political science perspective.

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List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Remaking the Chinese state	p. 1
Political strategies in the reform era	p. 17
Rationalizing the Chinese state: The political economy of government reform	p. 19
Reappraising central-local relations in Deng's China: Decentralization, dilemmas of control, and diluted effects of reform	p. 46
China's agricultural reforms: A twenty-year retrospective	p. 76
The social consequences of economic reform	p. 101
Clashes between reform and opening: Labor market formation in three cities	p. 103
The interdependence of state and society: The political sociology of local leadership	p. 132
The reform of state-owned enterprises in mainland China: A societal perspective	p. 157
Foreign policy and security issues	p. 169
Reform and Chinese foreign policy	p. 171
Twenty years of Chinese reform: The case of non-proliferation policy	p. 190
Soldiers of fortune, soldiers of misfortune: Commercialization and divestiture of the Chinese military-business complex, 1978-99	p. 204
Confidence-building measures and the People's Liberation Army	p. 228
The possibility of cross-Strait political negotiations	p. 257
Index	p. 279
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