10 China and Hong Kong: Corruption, Growth, and Clean Government
Lecture
Reading
Ang, Yuen Yuen (2020). China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press. Read Chapter 1, “Introduction: China’s Gilded Age.” (PDF) Required. Presentation by Iván G. L. — Thu, Oct 15.
Manion, Melanie (2004). Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Harvard University Press. Read Chapter 6, “Institutional Designs for Clean Government.” (PDF) Required.
Chen, Ting, and James Kai-sing Kung (2019). “Busting the ‘Princelings’: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(1), 185–226. (PDF) Recommended. Presentation by Santiago G. C. — Thu, Oct 15.
Wedeman, Andrew (2012). Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China. Cornell University Press. Read Chapter 1, “A Double Paradox.” (PDF) Recommended. Presentation by Armando G. P. — Thu, Oct 15.