SALLY SARGESON is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Murdoch University, Western Australia. She has been studying China's political economy since she first enrolled at Xiamen University as an anthropology student in 1985. Since then, she has completed a PhD at Murdoch University, been a Research Fellow at Zhejiang University, and an Exchange Scholar at Harvard University. She has published in the areas of labour reforms and industrial relations in China, and property rights reforms.