This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the profound changes in Chinas central-local relations since the late 1970s. Lending insight into a crucial component of Chinas current political economy and the transformation of state socialism, the contributors challenge conventional wisdom that state power rests in the traditional dichotomy of st
Jia Hao, a research fellow from the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the George Washington University, is currently President of the Washington Center for China Studies, Inc. Lin Zhimin, from Fudan University (China), earned a Ph.D. in political science at University of Washington and is currently an assistant professor at Valparaiso University.