Search -
Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
Commodifying Communism Business Trust and Politics in a Chinese City - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Author:David L. Wank Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in the organization of China's emerging market economy. It is based on almost two years of fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones. A close examination of how private business is cond... more »ucted through these ties sheds light on the dynamism of China's market economy and its political consequences.« less