This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in China post-1949. It is not intended to provide a new theoretical framework for understanding state-society relations; rather, the goal is to draw together the most important analyses in Western and Chinese writings. We begin by looking at the c...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, manag...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, manag...(展开全部)

格里德尔（J.B.Grieder），中文名贾祖麟，哈佛大学博士，美国著名中国研究学者费正清和史华慈的学生，布朗大学历史系教授（现已退休）。专长研究中国知识分子史，主要著作有《胡适与中国的文艺复兴》及《知识分子与现代中国》等。

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national ...(展开全部)

Barbara Geddes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national ...(展开全部)

全书收录了中国著名的经济学家方显廷用英文写作的两本经济学著作。 第一本书为THE POST-WAR INDUSTRIALIZATION OF CHINA (《战后中国之工业化》) ，原书于1942年4月由南开大学出版。全书共七章，分别为：“导论”，“中国的资源”，“战后中国工业化的领域”，“中国在战时的工业化成就”，“日本在中国”，“战后中国的资本与管理”，“对于组织战后工业的建议”。 第二本书为 INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL IN CHINA (《中国之工业资本》），原书于1936年刊载于《南开社会经济季刊》（英文）1936年4月号。全书分为三章，第一章“外资”，第二章“中资”，第三章“中资与外资的相对重要性”。

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state fo...(展开全部)