Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China's Development (1949-2020)

ISBN-13: 9789811604546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 510 str.

Tiejun Wen; Tsui Sit; Kin-Chi Lau

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950.- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976.- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996.- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008.- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.

O autorze

Wen Tiejun is Director of the Centre of Rural Revitalization, Peking University;

Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest

University; and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the

Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar

on macro-economics and agrarian issues, Independent Non-Executive Director of

Postal Savings Bank of China, and policy advisor to the State Council and the

Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.

Blurb

This open access book contextualizes China’s 70 years of contemporary history against one coherent backdrop: a late developing country endeavoring at all costs to industrialize, whether it was in the name of socialism or capitalism. This path is even more complicated by China’s getting caught in the geo-political confrontation of two superpowers in the 20th century: the Soviet Union and the USA. The author argues that China could only cope with these costs by internalizing them. As one of the leading scholars of agrarian issues in China, the author emphasizes the role of rural sector having been a source of surplus extraction for industrialization and the receptor of cost of development being transferred by the urban sector.

 

This book is the first volume of the Global University for Sustainability Book Series published with Palgrave Macmillan.