Imminent Collapse or Tolerable Instability?

[[fileno]]2040605010018[[department]]社會學研究

Fictive Ownership and Paths to Privatization in Rural China

[[fileno]]2040605030028[[department]]社會學研究

State Policy and Guanxi Network Adaptation: A Case Study of Local Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking in China

[[abstract]]Recently, guanxi, or personal networks, has emerged as a significant factor in explaining business success in Chinese societies. This paper examines the celebrated "instrumental thesis of guanxi" by challenging the term's culturalist fallacy. The argument is that the structure of rent-seeking behavior is what has generated and reinforced the economic instrumentality of personal networks. Therefore, structural and institutional factors such as state policy and China's place in the world economy should be duly emphasized. Guanxi works as a convenient tool for investors to work out a cooperation protocol (or conspiracy pact) with local officials. However, when relevant state policies are altered and the space for renting-seeking is trenched, the incentives for actors will change in response, thereby affecting existing guanxi webs and making them unproductive or even deleterious for investors. The study is based on field work conducted in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during 1994-96.[[fileno]]2040605010019[[department]]社會學研究

Taiwanese Business Associations in China: a Contested Terrain for Symbolic Sovereignty

[[sponsorship]]社會學研究所[[note]]已出版;沒有審查制度;具代表

A Tale of Two Villages: Deconstructing the Developmentalist Image of Chinese Local Industrialization

[[sponsorship]]社會學研究所[[note]]已出版;沒有審查制度;具代表

Alien Nationals: Chinese Migrant Labor under Differential Citizenship

[[sponsorship]]社會學研究所[[note]]已出版;沒有審查制度;具代表

Strange Bedfellows: An Inquiry into the Pseudo-Joint-Venture Relationship between the Local Authorities and Foreign Capital in the Pearl River Delta

[[fileno]]2040605030035[[department]]社會學研究

State Policy and Guanxi Network Adaptation: A Case Study of Local Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking in China

[[sponsorship]]社會學研究所[[note]]已出版;沒有審查制度;具代表