Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- 1. China's entrepreneurial transformation -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurship in the age of reform in China -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2. China's entrepreneurs and private enterprises -- Introduction -- Demographic characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurs -- Generational cohorts of Chinese entrepreneurs -- Comparing entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs -- Classification of private enterprises by legal form -- Industrial breakdown of private enterprises -- Regional disparities in entrepreneurial activity -- Notes -- 3. The evolution and emergence of entrepreneurship in China -- Introduction -- Dynasties, order and the emperor -- Stasis and failed reform in late Imperial China -- Turbulence and war in early 20th-century China -- The revolution arrives - Mao's China emerges -- China's reform period - hyper-growth and economic transformation -- Economic slowdown - China's 'new normal' in a less-than-normal global economy -- Notes -- 4. Models of entrepreneurship in China -- Introduction -- Network-based entrepreneurship -- Innovation-based entrepreneurship -- Social entrepreneurship -- Other models of entrepreneurship -- Notes -- 5. China's market dynamics: Domestic competition and international expansion -- Introduction -- Domestic economic growth and the rise of the consumer economy -- The continued role of state-owned and controlled enterprises -- The emergence of the private sector as the dominant economic driver -- The spatial nature of China's domestic markets -- The effects of liberalisation and state control on markets -- Chinese-style competition -- International expansion -- Notes -- 6. Financing entrepreneurship in China -- Introduction -- Financing mechanisms for Chinese enterprises