This paper advances an argument about the need to take into account two components of state-industry relations if we are to fully understand economic development and policy trajectory, as well as industry-state co-evolution. The first component, the specific structure of the bureaucracy and...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Invention of My Own -- 1 The White Knight Avoided: Economic Reforms and Innovation for Growth in China -- 2 Rules of the Run: The Politics of China's Institutions of Innovation -- 3 Beijing -- 4 Shanghai -- 5...

Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched book closely examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to discover where the nation may be headed...