Hainan State Society and Business in a Chinese Province China Policy 1st Edition by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard ISBN 0415460336 978-0415460330

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ISBN 10:0415460336 

ISBN 13:978-0415460330

Author:Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard 

This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an economic, political, and social nature that have received great attention from Beijing, in particular the “small government, big society” project. This book provides a full account of this transition, showing how Hainan casts important light on a number of highly topical issues in contemporary China studies: central-local relations, institutional reform, state-society relations, and economic development strategies. It provides detailed evidence of how relations between party cadres, state bureaucrats, businesses, foreign investors and civil society play out in practice in China today. It argues that despite the liberalization of recent years, especially in the economic sphere, the party state remains the most powerful actor in Chinese society, and that path-breaking reform experiments such as in Hainan remain highly vulnerable due to the central government’s hesitation to commit the resources and unequivocal political support needed for the experiments to be successfully realized.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction  2. ‘A Place that God Forgot’  3. Establishing a New Province  4. The Economy of Hainan  5. Foreign Trade and Investment  6. Yangpu Economic Development Zone  7. ‘Small Government’ in Hainan  8. ‘Big Society’ in Hainan  9. Hainan and Regional Cooperation  10. Hainan and the South China Sea  11. Conclusion 

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