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Back-alley banking private entrepreneurs in China

"Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing instituted economic reforms in the late 1970s. Most of these private ventures, however, have been denied access to official sources of credit. This book includes lively biographical sketches of individual entrepreneurs; telling quotations from official documents, policy statements, and newspaper accounts; and interviews with a wide varity of women and men who give vivid narratives of their daily struggles, ..."

Print Book, English, 2002
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 2002