Preface / Stuart R. Schram
Foreword: the Chinese state between yesterday and tomorrow / Karl Bünger
Introduction / Jacques Gernet
Part I: Patterns of rule
An enquiry into the Chinese conception of the law / Léon Vandermeersch
State and power in juxtaposition: an assessment of Ming despotism / Tilemann Grimm
The structure of the financial institutions of the state in the late Qing / Marianne Bastid
Decentralization in a unitary state: theory and practice, 1940-1984 / Stuart R. Schram
The system of "class status" / Jean-François Billeter
Recent developments in the relations between state and party norms in the People's Republic of China / Harro Von Senger
Part II: The economic role of the state
The influence of the "legalist" government of Qin on the economy as reflected in the texts discovered in Yunmeng County / Anthony Hulsewé
Attempts at economic co-ordination during the Western Han Dynasty / Michael Loewe
The imperial factories of Suzhou: limits and characteristics of state intervention during the Ming and Qing Dynasties / Paolo Santangelo
State intervention in the administration of a hydraulic infrastructure: the example of Hubei Province in late imperial times / Pierre-Etienne Will
List of contributors
Index
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