Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Globalization: State decline or state rebuilding? -- Globalizing China -- The rise of information society -- The weakening of the Chinese state -- Globalization and the state -- The argument -- The organization -- 2 The state, leadership and globalization -- The scholarly context: the state and globalization -- Globalization and the re-making of the state -- Modern (Western) states -- The state and the globalization of the state -- Globalization and state transformation in China -- The Chinese state as an agent of globalization -- Globalization: Importation and innovation -- 3 Globalism, nationalism and selective importation -- Globalism as a mindset -- Globalism as selective importation -- Nationalism and globalism: Historical legacy -- Political mobilization and identity building -- Importation of Western state products -- Reforms, legitimacy and selective importation -- Developmentalism as political legitimacy -- The failure of political reform in the 1980s -- Growth-based legitimacy in the 1990s -- Nationalism, selective importation and innovation -- 4 Power, interests and the justification of capitalism: Constructing an interest-based political order -- Passions for an interest-based social order -- Economic expansion and political interests -- The rise of an interest-based social order -- How political order was affected -- Against an interest-based political order -- Constructing a new political order -- Conclusion -- 5 Bureaucratic reformand market accommodation -- The dynamics of bureaucratic restructuring -- Bureaucratic restructuring: An overview -- The 1982 restructuring by Zhao Ziyang -- The 1988 restructuring by Li Peng -- The 1993 restructuring by Li Peng.

Market-building institutions under Zhu Rongji -- Institution-building, 1998 -- Accommodating the market -- Breaking the military links with business -- The development of the Mini-State Council (SETC) -- The ETO and Zhu's initial reform efforts -- The SETC (1993) -- The SETC (1998) -- Conclusion -- 6 Building a modern economic state: Taxation, finance and enterprise system -- Taxation reform and the tax regime -- Fiscal decentralization -- The 1983-84 Reform: the li gai shui system -- The 1987 Reform: the contract responsibility system -- The institutional basis of central-local fiscal relations -- The power shift between the center and the provinces -- The 1994 Reform and fiscal federalism -- Financial liberalization and centralization -- Economic reform and banking institution-building -- The Asian financial crisis and financial centralization -- Central-local relations and the central bank -- Banking centralization after the Asian financial crisis -- Financial reform and a market economy -- Building a modern enterprise system -- Zhu Rongji's initial attempt -- Corporatization attempts 1993-97 -- Reform of SOEs after 1997 -- Economic nationalism and state-building -- 7 State rebuilding, popular protest and collective action -- State-building and social movements -- State rebuilding and its discontents in China -- Information society and collective action -- Income disparities and social grievance -- Rural disparities -- Urban disparities -- Urban- rural disparities -- Regional disparities -- Corruption and moral decay -- The rise of social protests: farmers and workers -- Taxation reforms, rural burdens and farmers' protests -- Capitalism, unemployment and labor movements -- Conclusion -- 8 Contending visions of the Chinese state: New Liberalism vs. the New Left -- The rise of intellectual discourse in the post-Tiananmen era.

The neo-liberal discourse -- The philosophical foundation -- Globalism -- Democracy -- Civil society -- Constitutionalism -- The new left discourse -- Against globalization -- Against institutional fetishism -- Statism -- New collectivism -- Political and economic democracy -- Conclusion -- 9 Globalization and towards a rule-based state governance? -- Rule of law or rule by law -- The party vs. the rule of law -- The party and governance crisis -- Return to tradition? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Globalization: State decline or state rebuilding? -- 2 The state, leadership and globalization -- 3 Globalism, nationalism and selective importation -- 4 Power, interests, and the justification of capitalism -- 5 Bureaucratic reform and market accommodation -- 6 Building a modern economic state -- 7 State rebuilding, popular protest and collective action -- 8 Contending visions of the Chinese state -- 9 Globalization and towards a rule-based state governance? -- Bibliography -- Index.