This study provides a picture of organizations, economy, administration, and lifestyles in three small towns in China in the late 1990s, highlighting the economic transformation of China over the two decades from 1980 and the challenges of research access and contextualization of primary data.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This title was first published in 2001. The purpose of this study is to provide a picture of the organizations, economy, administration, and lifestyles in three small towns occupying very different positions within a developmental spectrum in China in the late 1990s. The economic transformation of China over the two decades from 1980 was a significant development. China had been of limits to Western scholarship, but a honeymoon interlude after the 1979 normalization of relations between Washington and Beijing allowed scholars to visit China. The intrusion of foreign researchers soon proved to be too intrusive for Chinese villagers, and so over the 1980s, the growth of Chinese studies in North America, Europe, and Australasia was not matched by an increase in research access. Also, the contextualization of primary data remains problematic, as the routines of collection and publication of official statistics in economy and society remain inconsistent and vague.

Title: "The Economic Transformation of China in the Late 1990s: A Study of Three Small Towns"

This title was first published in 2001. The purpose of this study is to provide a picture of the organizations, economy, administration, and lifestyles in three small towns occupying very different positions within a developmental spectrum in China in the late 1990s. The economic transformation of China over the two decades from 1980 was a significant development. China had been of limits to Western scholarship, but a honeymoon interlude after the 1979 normalization of relations between Washington and Beijing allowed scholars to visit China. The intrusion of foreign researchers soon proved to be too intrusive for Chinese villagers, and so over the 1980s, the growth of Chinese studies in North America, Europe, and Australasia was not matched by an increase in research access. Also, the contextualization of primary data remains problematic, as the routines of collection and publication of official statistics in economy and society remain inconsistent and vague.

ISBN-13: 9781138739345