China's capitalist transformation : the rhetoric that mattered / Yuan Li.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.

Chapter 1 Institutions, Rhetoric, and China .-- Chapter 2 Scholarly Accounts of China’s Transformation .-- Chapter 3 Casuistry as Rhetorical History: Legitimating China’s Market Transformation .-- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market .-- Chapter 5 The Rhetorics That Won: How Three Elite Controversies Shaped China’s Stock Market Institutions .-- Chapter 6 Spreading the Sunshine: The Rapid Growth and Transformation of China’s Private Equity Industry .-- Chapter 7 Concluding Thoughts.

This book provides a rare account of China's market reform in the own words of the Chinese: politicians, intellectuals, the media, and journalists. The Chinese rhetoric―complex, ironic, argumentative, and abstruse―may hold the key to understanding China's unique style of elite politics, state-citizen relationship, and institutional development. Topics include the establishment and change of the stock market and the recent institutionalization of the private equity industry. Rhetoricizing the Chinese capitalist transformation provides a glimpse into how the Chinese minds work as Chinese people participate in the process of changing the country and themselves. Adopting both an indigenous perspective and an outsider view on China, this book serves as a guide for anyone interested in learning how Chinese reason, persuade, debate, and resist.