Explaining the Dynamics of Change: Transformation and Evolution of China's Public Economy through War, Revolution, and Peace, 1928–2008

Bian, Morris L.

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“…Did elements of the new institutional arrangements that took shape during the 1950s contribute to enterprise reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s? I have asked and addressed some of these questions here and elsewhere (Bian, 2011; Bian, forthcoming), but more studies are needed before we can provide satisfactory answers. Equally important, this study points to the need to explore changes that occur over a longer temporal span and to examine the emergence, growth, breakdown, and replacement of the connective tissues that constitute the institutional fabric of society so that we can better understand the nature and dynamics of change.…”

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“…While key ingredients of the CCP ideology of economic development—an overwhelming emphasis on state-owned heavy industry, national defense, and a planned socialist economic system—predated the Chinese Revolution (Bian, 2005; Bian, forthcoming), China did try to adopt the Soviet model during the 1950s (Brugger, 1976; Guo, 2003; Kaple, 1994; Li, 2006), including the Soviet model of enterprise management. Soviet-inspired changes were already under way in Guizhou’s regional state enterprises in early 1950.…”

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Redefining the Chinese Revolution

Bian

2014

Modern China

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In recent years, China scholars have often debated the meaning and definition of the Chinese Revolution. While some studies reveal discontinuity or radical and transformative change, others show continuity or gradual and evolutionary change. This article contributes to the debate by examining how the connective tissues in Guizhou’s regional economic institutions—the regional economic bureaucracy and regional state enterprises as well as enterprise organization, management, and incentive structures and mechanisms—emerged, grew, broke down, and were replaced over the period 1937 to 1957. Specifically, it focuses on the creation and expansion of Guizhou’s regional state enterprises, the transformation of enterprise authority structure, the transplantation of the Soviet economic accounting system, the appropriation of the Western accounting system, and the development of social service and welfare institutions. Drawing extensively on heretofore unavailable archival and published material, this study demonstrates that the changes in Guizhou’s regional economic institutions were both radical and transformative and gradual and evolutionary. In the process, Guizhou’s regional state enterprises came to be defined by bureaucratic enterprise governance, Chinese Communist Party control over enterprise employees, and distinctive enterprise management and incentive mechanisms.

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Redefining the Chinese Revolution

Bian

2014

Modern China

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“…China's introduction of market mechanisms exhibits some similarities with market-capitalist processes typically observed in the West and in other East Asian societies, but the differences are pronounced as well (see, e.g., Bian, 2015;Li & Chan, 2017;Pearson, 2015;Yeh et al, 2015;Zhou et al, 2019). 4 Various terms have been put forth to describe the political economy that has evolved in China, including "state capitalism," "authoritarian capitalism," and "market socialism" (Zhou et al, 2019, p. 35).…”

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“…Nevertheless, China's marketization has been “incomplete” in significant respects (Li & Chan, 2017, p. 46), which is consistent with longstanding political dynamics in modern China. Over the course of much of the twentieth century, the Chinese political leaders have found ways to repurpose institutions to meet changing objectives, but the legitimacy of planned development has remained “relatively constant” (Bian, 2015, p. 220). The CCP has thus retained its central role in guiding the economy during the economic reform while adopting an “instrumental embrace of markets”—using market instruments to promote national development and enhance stability (Gallagher, 2016, p. 248; see also Pearson, 2015).…”

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Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*

Messner

2022

Criminology

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The purpose of my Sutherland Address is to explore the potential utility of elaborating and adapting the analytic framework of Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT) to account for the macro-social dynamics of crime in contemporary China. To do so, I situate the institutional dynamics of crime in China in comparative historical context and put forth a newly adapted formulation of IAT. I then illustrate the ways in which this adapted formulation of IAT can enhance the coherence of a rich body of research on crime in China by incorporating some of the empirical findings and insightful interpretations within an overarching theoretical framework. In addition, interrogating the applicability of IAT to the Chinese context draws attention to important gaps in the theory, thereby facilitating its further elaboration as well as promoting the development of general macro-social theory in criminology.

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“…In 1932, the Nationalist government set up the National Resources Commission (NRC) and made it responsible for industrial planning and managing state‐owned enterprises (SOEs hereafter). Staffed by technocrats instead of political appointees, the NRC reported directly to the supreme leader Chiang Kai‐shek and enjoyed a high political standing (Bian, 2015; Kirby, 2000). Among the plans, it had drawn up but came into fruition only during the Communist era include the Three Gorges Dam and the development of heavy industries in the inland provinces.…”

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The state in Chinese economic history

Qian

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2021

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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We survey the recent economics and history literature on the Chinese state to investigate its role in China's long‐term socioeconomic development. We highlight three insights. First, unlike in Europe, where interstate competition helped give rise to capitalist states with high capacity, the Chinese state emerged from a different historical context. Second, the 18th‐ and 19th‐century Chinese state does not fit into the mould of a strong and extractive Oriental despotic state as once commonly believed. By conventional measures, early modern China had a weak state. Third, state building and centre‐local relations are two useful dimensions to understand development and change in China's recent history and political economy. To adapt China to a changing world, Chinese state builders embarked on a long process of state building from the late‐19th century through the Republican and Communist eras. Facilitated partly by regional decentralisation, the process now sees the Chinese state playing a substantially larger role in the economy and everyday life than any previous time in history.

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Explaining the Dynamics of Change: Transformation and Evolution of China's Public Economy through War, Revolution, and Peace, 1928–2008

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Redefining the Chinese Revolution

Redefining the Chinese Revolution

Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*

The state in Chinese economic history

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