Institutions and Institutional Change in China: Premodernity and Modernization

By Fei-Ling Wang and John Wang

Wang proposes and applies an innovative analytical framework to study the institutional continuity and changes in China. More specifically, this study examines and explains the peculiar premodernity and the profound modernization process of China. On the track of a state-led modernization, the dragon of China is found to be institutionally entering the nets of the market economy. An inquiry of China's labour allocation patterns and their changes serves as the indicator for the institutional analysis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333730801
• ISBN13: 9780333730805
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"