Ray Yep, Manager Empowerment in China. Political Implications of Rural Industrialization in the Reform Area

Abstract

Ray Yep’s book is a case study of the changing dynamics between the local state and managers of collective township and village enterprises (TVE, xianzhen qiye) in rural China. The fieldwork was undertaken from 1995-1998 in Zibo prefecture in Shandong province (a map and basic demographic and socio-economic data would have been useful). In seven chapters the author focuses on how managers in TVEs have become economically and politically empowered partners of the local state since rural refor..

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