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University of Michigan Law School

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2009

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China's Restructured Commercial Banks: Nomenklatura, Nicholas C. Howson Jan 2009

China's Restructured Commercial Banks: Nomenklatura, Nicholas C. Howson

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In the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, and accelerating after 2003 the People's Republic of China (PRC or China) has implemented an ambitious reform program directed at the commanding heights of what once pa ed for China ' financial system-the large state-owned and state-managed commercial banks. Contrary to a good deal of advice offered by policy and finance specialists, China did not liquidate or fully privatize these institutions. Instead, the PRC sought to avoid the significant social (and no doubt political) cost associated with liquidation, or real privatization, by instead changing (1) the internal dynamics of, and …