State socialist redistributive economies are characterized by the allocation and distribution
of goods through central planning. This paper develops a theory of market transition which …

Despite widespread skepticism about government ownership in transitional economies,
China's rapid industrial growth has been led by public enterprises. Kornai's theory of soft …

During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials
from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the …

In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms,
it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural …

Nee's (1989 and in this issue)" market transition theory," contested by Xie and Hannum (in
this issue), claims that market mechanisms have predictable implications for inequality." …

China's post-Mao economic reforms have generated rapid and sustained economic growth,
unprecedented rises in real income and living standards, and have transformed what was …

The paper suggests that there is a tension between the basic tenant of New Institutional
Economics (NIE) and the manner in which it has been applied in the debate on post …

In the practice of social science, the most conspicuous recent attempt at theorizing about
nonconformity and protest in late communism rests on the conceptual schema of 'civil …

When market reform generates rapid growth in an agrarian subsistence economy, changes
in inequality may be due to economic growth and structural change rather than to the …

This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of
Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the author offers a fresh understanding of …