Changing Central-local Relations In China

Preface -- Introduction -- Historical Perspective and Overview -- China’s Central-Local Relationship: A Historical Perspective -- Market and State: Changing Central-Local Relations in China -- Institutional Reorganization and Its Impact on Decentralization -- Functional Dimensions -- Central-Local Fiscal Politics in China -- Rural Reform and the Rise of Localism -- Central-Local Relations From the Perspective of State and Non-State Industries -- Foreign Trade Decentralization and Its Impact on Central-Local Relations -- Regional Differentiation and Case Studies -- Regional Inequality Variations and Central Government Policy, 1978-1988 -- The Case of Guangdong in Central-Provincial Relations -- Reform and Shanghai: Changing Central-Local Fiscal Relations