1. The logic of the market economy and the concept of state is a major topic that is not easily addressed. Scholars have analyzed it from a variety of perspectives in both theoretical and practical terms relying on logical deduction and analogies to the world of art, along with approaches...

A characteristic of China's "gradualistic" reform is that it starts first by trying not to confront many vested interests or to undertake any fundamental, radical restructuring of the old system, but rather to develop a new system alongside (or on the "margins" of) the old system. Therefore,...