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Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics
of Governance in China, Dali L. Yang, Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 414.In the literature on Chinese politics one finds quite disparate views
of state capacity in China. Is the Chinese regime now "in the midst
of a deep and perhaps overwhelming crisis of governance" as
Shaoguang Wang argued in a recent issue of the Journal of
Democracy (14 [2003]: 36–42)? Those who adopt this
perspective trumpet the growing challenge that unemployment, income
inequality, peasant and worker discontent, lawlessness, crime, corruption
and environmental degradation pose in China and the state's inability
to deal effectively with these problems. Or has the "central
state" in China become "more capable and effective
generally" over the past decade as Dali Yang, author of the book
under review, argued in the same journal (Journal of Democracy,
14 [2003]: 43–50)?