Abstract

Doing Business in China over Three Centuries

Many Chinese, long used to being shut out of the political process, seemed unaware or uninterested in the most recent (September 1995) Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee meeting. "Who cares, really?" asked a Chinese manager of a joint-venture enterprise to an Associated Press reporter. For him, the shift to a partial market economy had brought a degree of prosperity and freedom that has made the leaders' decisions seem less important. But, the leaders are not impotent yet: The manager also earnestly requested that the reporter not use his name.