This book focuses on describing, explaining, and evaluating the changing central-local relationship in China. It presents a comprehensive picture of what has happened in China's central-local relations during the decade-long economic reform, to understand the state of affairs in China.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the profound changes in Chinas central-local relations since the late 1970s. Lending insight into a crucial component of Chinas current political economy and the transformation of state socialism, the contributors challenge conventional wisdom that state power rests in the traditional dichotomy of st