Originally published in 1995 this volume examines and analyzes the factors that have made the township-village enterprise (TVE) such a driver of growth in the Chinese economy in recent years.

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

1. Introduction 2. Productivity and Behavior of Chinese Rural Industrial Enterprises 3. Chinese Township-Village Enterprises as Vaguely Defined Cooperatives (with Martin L. Weitzman) 4. Risk-Aversion, Rural-Urban Wage Differentiation and Migration