LAM, Tao-Chiu <br/><br/>
A discipline in the shadow of the state :  public administration in post-Mao China 

 - New York :  Marcel Dekker,  1996 
<br/><br/> This article examines the main features of the development of the discipline of public administration in post-Mao China. It places the growth of the discipline and its main characteristics and problems in China's statist context and the current search for a new economic order engineered by the state. Two broad issues are examined in depth. First, it discusses the subservient status of the discipline to the state in an institutional context. Second, this article interprets the substantive concerns of the discipline of public administration in China in terms of its heavy dependence on the state. While the direct involvement of the state has led to the rehabilitation and greatly contributed to the re-emergence of the discipline after it was banned for three decades, it has, paradoxically, hindered the development of the discipline into a reflective, autonomous and mature field of academic pursuit.