Lynn T. White III is an emeritus professor and senior research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Department, and East Asian Studies Program of Princeton University.

• Prologue: Local-Political Growth, Behavioral Periodization, Policy Reactions 1. Farmers Start the End of the Centralist Revolution 2. Ex-Peasant Industrialists End Most Socialist Planning 3. Varied Managers Reform China’s Power Structure 4. Countryside Businesspeople Modernize China’s Markets 5. Rural Leaders Beat Urban Planners 6. Tax Collectors and Subsidizers Shape Central-Local Relations 7. Budgeteers Face the 1980s Crisis 8. Owners Manage Urban Corruptions and Companies 9. Bankers Arrange Credit, Savings, and Depreciation 10. Technicians Innovate to Sell Quality Products 11. Long-Distance Traders and Jiangnan Regionalists Create New Markets 12. Service Providers Rule Collective and Private Enterprises 13. Migrants Staff China’s Reform Economy Epilogue: Local and Medial Powers, not just Central Powers; Situations, not just Ideas

Lynn T. White III is an emeritus professor and senior research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Department, and East Asian Studies Program of Princeton University.

• Prologue: Local-Political Growth, Behavioral Periodization, Policy Reactions 1. Farmers Start the End of the Centralist Revolution 2. Ex-Peasant Industrialists End Most Socialist Planning 3. Varied Managers Reform China’s Power Structure 4. Countryside Businesspeople Modernize China’s Markets 5. Rural Leaders Beat Urban Planners 6. Tax Collectors and Subsidizers Shape Central-Local Relations 7. Budgeteers Face the 1980s Crisis 8. Owners Manage Urban Corruptions and Companies 9. Bankers Arrange Credit, Savings, and Depreciation 10. Technicians Innovate to Sell Quality Products 11. Long-Distance Traders and Jiangnan Regionalists Create New Markets 12. Service Providers Rule Collective and Private Enterprises 13. Migrants Staff China’s Reform Economy Epilogue: Local and Medial Powers, not just Central Powers; Situations, not just Ideas