Rural roots of reform before China's conservative change / by Lynn T. White, III.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : local-political growth, behavioral periodization, policy reactions -- Farmers start the end of the centralist revolution -- Ex-peasant industrialists end most socialist planning -- Varied managers reform China's power structure -- Countryside businesspeople modernize China's markets -- Rural leaders beat urban planners -- Tax collectors and subsidizers shape central-local relations -- Budgeteers face the 1980s crisis -- Owners manage urban corruptions and companies -- Bankers arrange credit, savings, and depreciation -- Technicians innovate to sell quality products -- Long-distance traders and Jiangnan regionalists create new markets -- Service providers rule collective and private enterprises -- Migrants staff China's reform economy -- Epilogue : local and medial powers, not just central powers, situations, not just Ideas.