Abstract EN:

The dissertation in an investigation of the social and political aspects of the post-mao reforms in china, based on a micro-level study of enterprise reforms in the state sector. The widely accepted virew is that china's reform process amounts to marginalizing political aspects. The priority granted to economic aspects is viewed as a pragmatist device congruent to basic cultural features. The dissertation shows how deng xiaoping's reforms can be analyzed as a t circumvention strategy, including in the bypassing of the problems of state building. But their pragmatic approach is not attributed only to clever policies, but also to a politicial form. This form's origins as well as evolution is then sought ion the process of the political consturction during the late imperial period and the transition to modern times.