Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State - Paperbackby Yingyao Wang (Author) China's breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as faceless and inconsequential, their role neglected in favor of party leaders' top down rule or bottom up