Commodifying Communism

Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City

AvDavid L. Wank,Mark Granovetter

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Commodifying Communism is an ethnographically grounded account of the institutional organization and political consequences of China's historically unprecedented market growth. Drawing upon almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book challenges conventional views of post-communist emerging markets being tied to the retreat of the state. David Wank shows how entrepreneurs running private trading companies in Xiamen City, Fujian Province (one of China's five special economic zones) maximize profit and security through patron-client networks with local state agents. The book examines how processes of opportunity, exchange, expectations, and advantage are constrained by both statist and popular institutions in market clientelism. It also considers the implications of market clientelism for the dynamism of China's emerging market economy relative to Eastern European post-communist economies and its political consequences for state-society and center-local relations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-07-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521798419

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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"The most important book yet to appear on China's emerging private sector, David Wank's Commodifying Communism is also a major contribution to comparative economic sociology. Drawing carefully on extensive fieldwork among China's new urban entrepreneurs, Wank shows how private entrepreneurship emerges from within the social and political relationships of an earlier period. His carefully conceptualized analysis takes on a range of popular ideas about the transition to a market economy and has clear implications for the analysis of all market economies emerging from the Soviet model." Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Orientation of the study; 2. Institutional commodification: concepts and categories of analysts; Part I. Instituted Processes of Commercial Clientelism: 3. The structure of commercial opportunity of Xiamen; 4. Symbiotic transactions between private firms and public units; 5. Enhancing expectations: the social organization of contracts; 6. Entrepreneurial paths and capital: personal attributes as competitive advantage; Part II. Economic and Political Outcomes: 7. Comparing economic performance in China and Eastern Europe; 8. The transformation of political order; 9. Epilogue: evolutionary trends in the 1990s.