A close look at the policy-making and regulatory institutions the Chinese government has created to manage equity development since 1984 and how public actors have controlled institutional development.

Part 1: Theoretical Considerations 1. Stock Market Regulation and Institutional Change in Reform China 2. Investors, Bureaucrats and the Institutions of the Chinese State Part 2: Local Institutional Capture 3. Nascent Equity Markets and Local Institution Building, 1984-90 4. Institutional Capture by Local Leaders: Share Issuance and Other Problems, 1993-2000 5. Equity Developmentalism Unbound: The Capture of Secondary Market Institutions in Shenzhen and Shanghai, 1995-97 6. The Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges: From Local Control to 'Sons of the CSRC' 7. Local Institution-Making and the Securities Trading Centres 8. Institutional Creation and Development: The China Securities Regulatory Commission 9. Incoherence at the Centre: The State Council Securities Commission and CSRC/PBoC Relations 10. Drafting the Securities Law: The Role of the National People's Congress in Creating Institutions Part 3: Conclusions 11. Socialist Market Regulation 12. China's Stock Market and the Changing Policy Priorities of the State Council 13. Equity Politics and Market Institutions

Stephen Green is the Head of the Asia Programme at The Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, London.