Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful.

White, Jay D

John Gardner, 1939-88, Notes on the Contributors, Introduction: The Chinese Developmental State in the Reform Era, PART 1 - THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF THE STATE, 1. Central Planning and Local Participation Under Mao: the Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants, 2. Macro-economic Management and System Reform in China, 3. The Changing Role of the State in Chinese Agriculture, 4. A Soviet Specialist's View of the Chinese Reforms, 5. The State and the Open Door Policy on the Chinese State, PART 2 - POLITICS AND THE NATIONAL STATE, 6. Much Ado About Nothing: Party Reform in the 1980s, 7. A Janus-faced Army? The Military and Reform Policies in China, 8. Law, the State and Economic Reform in China, PART 3 - DECENTRALISATION AND THE LOCAL STATE, 9. Basic-level Government and Economic Reform in Urban China, 10. Political Institutionalisation at the Basic Level of Government in China, 11. Development State, Entrepreneurial State: the Political Economy of Socialist Reform in Xinji Municipality and Guanghan County, PART 4 - STATE AND SOCIETY, 12. The State and the single child policy, 13. Privatisation and politics in rural China, Index