Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China. By Hongying Wang. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Abstract

This is a clearly written and well-paced discussion of how foreign companies have been able to invest in China and profit from their investments through informal relationships in the absence of consistently enforced formal legal protection for such business investments.