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Sun notes correctly that the effects of corruption in China have worsened progressively, shifting initially from helping to corrode the planned system to creating major hindrance to reform and development. Recommended. --Choice Corruption is arguably the critical issue facing contemporary China, influencing everything from the distribution of wealth and opportunity to the legitimacy of the government. Yan Sun's timely analysis of corruption in China brings an enormous amount of empirical data to bear on the question, puts the issue in comparative perspective, and offers sharp and perceptive explanations. A must read. --Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University This is the most comprehensive survey of corruption in reform-era China that I've read. The book draws on an impressive range of Chinese-language casebook materials to show the complex interactions between China's reform process and the emergence of both conventional and more novel forms of corruption. --Kellee Tsai, author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China In Corruption and Market in Contemporary China, Yan Sun analyzes how the breakdown of political accountability and the distortion of incentives have contributed to widespread abuse of power and looting by Chinese officials in the 1990s. Sun has painstakingly assembled a powerful case against the view that economic liberalization can reduce corruption. On the contrary, economic liberalization under authoritarian rule is proved to have bred new and more pernicious forms of corruption. The book's empirical richness and creative application of theory will make it a new benchmark in the research on corruption in transition economies. --Minxin Pei, Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Yan Sun looks at the question of whether corruption is an inevitable part of China's transition to a free-market economy and examines the ways in which market reforms in the China have shaped corruption since 1978. Just as interesting, she considers how corruption has, in turn, shaped reforms. --China Economic Review

This is the most comprehensive survey of corruption in reform-era China that I've read. The book draws on an impressive range of Chinese-language casebook materials to show the complex interactions between China's reform process and the emergence of both conventional and more novel forms of corruption. --Kellee Tsai, author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China Sun notes correctly that the effects of corruption in China have worsened progressively, shifting initially from helping to corrode the planned system to creating major hindrance to reform and development. Recommended. --Choice Corruption is arguably the critical issue facing contemporary China, influencing everything from the distribution of wealth and opportunity to the legitimacy of the government. Yan Sun's timely analysis of corruption in China brings an enormous amount of empirical data to bear on the question, puts the issue in comparative perspective, and offers sharp and perceptive explanations. A must read. --Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University In Corruption and Market in Contemporary China, Yan Sun analyzes how the breakdown of political accountability and the distortion of incentives have contributed to widespread abuse of power and looting by Chinese officials in the 1990s. Sun has painstakingly assembled a powerful case against the view that economic liberalization can reduce corruption. On the contrary, economic liberalization under authoritarian rule is proved to have bred new and more pernicious forms of corruption. The book's empirical richness and creative application of theory will make it a new benchmark in the research on corruption in transition economies. --Minxin Pei, Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Yan Sun looks at the question of whether corruption is an inevitable part of China's transition to a free-market economy and examines the ways in which market reforms in the China have shaped corruption since 1978. Just as interesting, she considers how corruption has, in turn, shaped reforms. --China Economic Review

This is the most comprehensive survey of corruption in reform-era China that I've read. The book draws on an impressive range of Chinese-language casebook materials to show the complex interactions between China's reform process and the emergence of both conventional and more novel forms of corruption. --Kellee Tsai, author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China Sun notes correctly that the effects of corruption in China have worsened progressively, shifting initially from helping to corrode the planned system to creating major hindrance to reform and development. Recommended. --Choice In Corruption and Market in Contemporary China, Yan Sun analyzes how the breakdown of political accountability and the distortion of incentives have contributed to widespread abuse of power and looting by Chinese officials in the 1990s. Sun has painstakingly assembled a powerful case against the view that economic liberalization can reduce corruption. On the contrary, economic liberalization under authoritarian rule is proved to have bred new and more pernicious forms of corruption. The book's empirical richness and creative application of theory will make it a new benchmark in the research on corruption in transition economies. --Minxin Pei, Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Corruption is arguably the critical issue facing contemporary China, influencing everything from the distribution of wealth and opportunity to the legitimacy of the government. Yan Sun's timely analysis of corruption in China brings an enormous amount of empirical data to bear on the question, puts the issue in comparative perspective, and offers sharp and perceptive explanations. A must read. --Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Yan Sun looks at the question of whether corruption is an inevitable part of China's transition to a free-market economy and examines the ways in which market reforms in the China have shaped corruption since 1978. Just as interesting, she considers how corruption has, in turn, shaped reforms. --China Economic Review

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Yan Sun is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Queens College and the Graduate Center. She is the author of The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism: 1976–92.

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