Jae Ho Chung - Chinas Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy

By examining the different layers of the Chinese state, this book sets a new standard for research on local governance in China. It will be of immediate value to all interested in Chinas ongoing evolution.

Bruce Dickson George Washington University

This edited volume is long overdue... This well-timed study of Chinas administrative hierarchy masterfully addresses the huge gap in the field. The editors are to be congratulatedand thankedfor offering this valuable piece of work.

Dorothy J. Solinger University of California at Irvine

This new book on Chinas spatial constitution is tightly organized and extremely informative. The tone is comprehensive, based on fresh research. Everybody who is seriously interested in contemporary China must read it.

Lynn T. White Princeton University

The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments is often overlooked. The themes of Chinas local administrative hierarchy, and its historical evolution, have until now received scant attention; this book fills that gap, and presents a comprehensive survey of Chinas local administration, from the province down to the township. It examines the political and functional definitions and historical origins of the nine local administrative levels or categories in contemporary China: the province, the centrally-administered municipality, the ethnic minority autonomous region, the special administrative region, the deputy-provincial city, the prefecture, the county, township and urban district. It investigates how each of the different levels of Chinas local administration has developed historically, both before and after 1949; and it explores the functions, political and economic, that the different levels and units carry out, and how their relationships with superior and subordinate units have evolved over time. It also discusses how far the post-Mao reforms have affected local administration, and how the local administrative hierarchy is likely to develop going forward.

Jae Ho Chung is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University, Korea. His publications include: Central Control and Local Discretion in China; Charting Chinas Future; and Cities in China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era (the latter also published by Routledge).

Tao-Chiu Lam is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He currently administers the universitys MBA program in Xian and Shenzhen. He has published on local government and public sector management in China.

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Edited by Jae Ho Chung and Tao-Chiu Lam

First published 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chinas local administration : traditions and changes in the sub-national hierarchy / edited by Jae Ho Chung and Tao-Chiu Lam.
p. cm.(China policy series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Local governmentChina. I. Chong, Chae-ho, 1960
II. Lam, Tao-Chiu.
JS7353.A2C56 2009
320.80951dc22 2009009521

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Types of Chinas local administration

Structure of Chinas local administration, 2007

Comparative statistics between Chinese provinces and foreign countries

List of provinces/provincial-level governments (Yuan to present)

Provincial government share of local expenditure

Comparison of basic data for Chinese CAMs

The CAM in comparatives: economic indicators

Basic infrastructure of Chinese CAMs

Careers of party secretaries of four CAMs, 19492007

Chinas five provincial-level ethnic autonomous regions

Chinas 30 ethnic minority autonomous prefectures

Number of ethnic minorities in the NPC

Success rate of Government bills

Cumulative inward investments in Hong Kong, 20022006

Outward investment from Hong Kong, 20022006

Profile of deputy-provincial cities, 2006

Subordinate units of the deputy-provincial cities, 1990 and 2006

Prefecture-level units changing since the 1980s

Prefecture-level units in China by 2006

Numbers of local government tiers from the Qin dynasty to 1949

Powers over local development and planning

Prospects of the prefecture-level cities

Structure of local revenue among selected provinces in 2002

Profile of Chinas counties