Chinas capitalist transformation von Yuan Li

This book provides a rare account of Chinas market reform in the own words of the Chinese: politicians, intellectuals, the media, and journalists. The Chinese rhetoriccomplex, ironic, argumentative, and abstrusemay hold the key to understanding Chinas 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.

Dr. Yuan Li is a business professor specializing in management, strategy, and organization theory. She obtained her PhD from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the rhetoric and semiotics of institutional and organizational change. She has published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Communication Quarterly, and Culture and Organization, among others. She serves on the Editorial Board of Organization Studies. Having grown up in China and spent an equal number of years living in North America, Yuan takes both an indigenous perspective and an outsider view on China. This dual approach helps uncover the cultural meanings associated with the extraordinary changes in economic and organizational systems. To her, the enigma of China can only be explained by looking at the Chinese rhetoric: the tone, style, content, and symbolism. A disclaimer: As a management scholar, her research on China is expected to contribute to the study of organizations and institutions, a field characterized by theorizing and building conceptual modelsso forgive the sections on "theory."