A Shanghai model?

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 65, 2010, Pages 63-85

  Andreas, Joel ^a  

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References (12)

1. Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, Cambridge 2008.
2. It is quite common, of course, for academics and journalists casually to suggest that the difficulties faced by China's workers and peasants are a consequence of the government's failure fully to carry out market reforms. It is less common to encounter scholars, like Huang, who make this theme the centre of completely elaborated scholarly analyses.
3. Some enterprises that registered as collectives were actually privately run, but there is no evidence that these comprised more than a small proportion of the total, and Huang does not suggest that they did. Moreover, it seems that such false registration was largely a phenomenon of the late 80s and early 90s, after the establishment of larger private enterprises had been endorsed ideologically and gained legal sanction, but collective enterprises continued to enjoy credit and other preferences.
4. Victor Nee, 'A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism', American Sociological Review, vol. 54, no. 5, 1989.
5. The economic logics of household and capitalist enterprises are fundamentally different. Household enterprises depend on family labour and they therefore must make consumption their main goal, while capitalist enterprises depend on wage labour and they are therefore able to make profit their main goal.
6. Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, p. 258.
7. Distribution of these services during the Mao era was fundamentally unfair: in cities, education and health care were provided by the state and the quality was superior, while in villages, rural collectives underwrote much of the cost and the quality was inferior
8. Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, p. 292.
9. Huang also discussed these issues in his previous book, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era, Cambridge 2003.
10. Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, p. 297.
11. Huang, 'China's rise relied on a rural miracle. So does its future', Guardian blog, 17 May 2009.
12. Also see Huang, 'Nongcun gaige de weijing zhiye' [Unfinished tasks of village reform], ft Zhongwen wang [Financial Times Chinese Net], 18 August 2009