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Authoritarian Markets Amandina Lihamba little attention was paid toAuthoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978, China had no commercial banks. Today it commands the world's largest banking system, with assets equal to 40% of global GDP. Adam Y. Liu argues that this rise was not the product of market reforms, but of political bargains and bureaucratic mobilization. In the 1990s, Beijing issued bank licenses as bargaining