Rural Roots of Reform Before China's Conservative Change

ISBN-13: 9780815371052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 380 str.

Lynn T. White III

Opis

China’s economic-military ‘rise’ and political authoritarian governance dominate academic, journalistic, and official discourse about the world’s most populous country. This book however provides new analysis going beyond these concepts to a more balanced view that accounts for China’s needs in international ecologies and economies.

Spis treści

Prologue: Local-Political Growth, Behavioral Periodization, Policy Reactions 1. Farmers Start the End of the Centralist Revolution 2. Ex-Peasant Industrialists End Most Socialist Planning 3. Varied Managers Reform China’s Power Structure 4. Countryside Businesspeople Modernize China’s Markets  5. Rural Leaders Beat Urban Planners 6. Tax Collectors and Subsidizers Shape Central-Local Relations 7. Budgeteers Face the 1980s Crisis 8. Owners Manage Urban Corruptions and Companies 9. Bankers Arrange Credit, Savings, and Depreciation 10. Technicians Innovate to Sell Quality Products 11. Long-Distance Traders and Jiangnan Regionalists Create New Markets 12. Service Providers Rule Collective and Private Enterprises 13. Migrants Staff China’s Reform Economy Epilogue: Local and Medial Powers, not just Central Powers; Situations, not just Ideas

O autorze

Lynn T. White III is an emeritus professor and senior research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School, Politics Department, and East Asian Studies Program of Princeton University.