Weapons of the Rich. Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China

by Gunter Schubert and Thomas Heberer

This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically acquiescent due to systematic co-optation by the party state. This book, however, argues that private entrepreneurs should be understood, and analytically conceptualized, as a 'strategic group' that makes use of different formal and informal channels to safeguard and expand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811212791
• ISBN13: 9789811212796
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"