State-Market Interactions in China's Reform Era : Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Routledge Contemporary China Series .
- Routledge Contemporary China Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Dedication -- 1 What is unknown in the "Beijing Consensus": decentralized and dispersed state ownership -- 2 Toward a new framework: market-building as state-building -- 3 From central state monopoly to local state competition -- 4 The rise of China's "tobacco empire" -- 5 "Recentralization" and global market-building -- 6 More global, deeper local -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China's tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully embraced the global market.