Xiaoming Huang - The Institutional Dynamics of Chinas Great Transformation

The Institutional Dynamics of Chinas Great Transformation

This book examines the role of institutions in Chinas recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in Chinas rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national and historical settings is less well understood. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines including law, economics, politics, international relations and communication studies to consider whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their historical or cultural environments and if their utilitarian functions can, and should, be observed, identified and measured in different ways.

The book discusses Chinas economic institutions, political and legal institutions, and the international institutions with which China engages; institutions promoting science and technology; institutions of local governance and media organization; and the household registration system. Through these case studies, it examines how institutions themselves have been formed, changed and re-formed over recent decades, and suggests theoretical and methodological adjustments in institutional analysis to allow a fuller understanding of the institutional dynamics of Chinas transformation.

Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 19512000: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (also published by Routledge).

The Institutional Dynamics of Chinas Great Transformation

Edited by

Xiaoming Huang

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The institutional dynamics of Chinas great transformation / edited by Xiaoming Huang.
p. cm. (China policy series ; 18)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Public institutions China. 2. China Politics and government 20023. China Economic conditions 20004. China Social conditions 2000I. Huang, Xiaoming.
JQ1510.I67 2010
306.0951 dc22 2010022452

ISBN 0-203-83687-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-58058-8 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-203-83687-3 (ebk)