Economic Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Chinese Township and Village Enterprises

Cheng Jin is Associate Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Policy at the South China University of Technology, China. His research areas include imperial China’s land market, and China’s fiscal management from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. TVEs: Theories and Methodology.- Chapter 3. Township and Village Enterprises: History and Institutions (1958–1997).- Chapter 4. Ownership Structure of TVEs: TVE and Local Politics.- Chapter 5. The Fall and Rise of State-Owned Enterprises (I): The Dual-Track Price System.- Chapter 6. The Fall and Rise of State-owned Enterprises (II): The Institutional Root of the Chinese Dual Head Economy.- Chapter 7. TVE and the Economic Environment.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.