Property rights and economic reform in China
By: edited by Jean C. Oi and Andrew G. Walder.
Contributors: Walder, Andrew George.; Oi, Jean Chun.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Right of property -- China -- Congresses; Government ownership -- China -- Congresses; Privatization -- China -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "The contributors to this volume, from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, have all conducted fieldwork in China on specific economic sectors or enterprise types. Working with a common definitional framework derived from the work of the institutional economist Harold Demsetz, they seek to establish which actors exercise what kinds of rights in practice over what kinds of economic assets, documenting changes through time.

Most of the essays examine the rural industrial economy - the fastest-growing sector - or the "spin-off" economic enterprises and activities of public enterprises and institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Revisions of papers presented at a conference at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Property rights in the Chinese economy / Andrew Walder and Jean C. Oi; title: Collective enterprise and property rights in a Sichuan Village / Gregory A. Ruf; title: Local institutions and the transformation of property rights in Southern Fujain / Chih-Jou Jay Chen; title: The role of local government in creating property rights / Xiaolin Guo; title: The evolution of property rights in village enterprises / James Kai-Sing Kung; title: Shareholding cooperatives / Eduard B. Vermeer; title: Local elites as officials and owners / Nan Lin and Chih-Jou Jay Chen; title: The regional evolution of ownership forms / Susan H. Whiting; title: Backyard profit centers / Yi-Min Lin and Zhanxin Zhang; title: Bargained property rights / Corinna-Barbara Francis; title: Producing property rights / David L. Wank.