Benedicte Brøgger is Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.

"To understand civil society in China today, it is imperative to understand social enterprises. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of work-integration social enterprises, the organizations through which the Chinese state serves disabled people. Based on rigorous research from four different sites across the country, Wang not only reveals the way the Chinese state uses state enterprises to accomplish its goals, but also offers a useful schema to analyze the different types of state-SE relationships that emerge. She finds that social enterprises with cooperative relationships with the state of the most effective at influencing state policy." Carolyn L. Hsu, Colgate University, author of Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

• Part I. Overview 1. The global social enterprise movement 2. The social enterprise movement in China Part II. Cases 3. In the international market economy and three case studies 4. The Qushuo Academy – in the modern economy 5. The Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute in the moral economy 6. A socialist economy with Chinese characteristics Part III. Discussion 7. How social enterprises alter the social contract 8. How to engage in social entrepreneurship in China

Benedicte Brøgger is Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.

"To understand civil society in China today, it is imperative to understand social enterprises. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of work-integration social enterprises, the organizations through which the Chinese state serves disabled people. Based on rigorous research from four different sites across the country, Wang not only reveals the way the Chinese state uses state enterprises to accomplish its goals, but also offers a useful schema to analyze the different types of state-SE relationships that emerge. She finds that social enterprises with cooperative relationships with the state of the most effective at influencing state policy." Carolyn L. Hsu, Colgate University, author of Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

• Part I. Overview 1. The global social enterprise movement 2. The social enterprise movement in China Part II. Cases 3. In the international market economy and three case studies 4. The Qushuo Academy – in the modern economy 5. The Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute in the moral economy 6. A socialist economy with Chinese characteristics Part III. Discussion 7. How social enterprises alter the social contract 8. How to engage in social entrepreneurship in China

Benedicte Brøgger is Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.

"To understand civil society in China today, it is imperative to understand social enterprises. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of work-integration social enterprises, the organizations through which the Chinese state serves disabled people. Based on rigorous research from four different sites across the country, Wang not only reveals the way the Chinese state uses state enterprises to accomplish its goals, but also offers a useful schema to analyze the different types of state-SE relationships that emerge. She finds that social enterprises with cooperative relationships with the state of the most effective at influencing state policy." Carolyn L. Hsu, Colgate University, author of Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China

• Part I. Overview 1. The global social enterprise movement 2. The social enterprise movement in China Part II. Cases 3. In the international market economy and three case studies 4. The Qushuo Academy – in the modern economy 5. The Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute in the moral economy 6. A socialist economy with Chinese characteristics Part III. Discussion 7. How social enterprises alter the social contract 8. How to engage in social entrepreneurship in China