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Article: Hainan-State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
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- The China Journal
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- July 1, 2009
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Hainan-State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province, by Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard. London: Routledge, 2009. xii + 188 pp. £80.00/US$160.00 (hardcover).
Compared to the situation engendered by "Hainan fever" at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, the provincial-level Special Economic Zone now looks surprisingly desolate. In this well-researched book, Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, an expert in Chinese government restructuring, painstakingly recounts the tragicomedy of China's newest province, including reforms and reversals, its economic upsurge and downturn, and its roles in the South China Sea and Southern China.
After several failed attempts to attain provincial status during modern times, Hainan ...