The Political Economy of Chinese Development

ISBN-13: 9780873327633 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str.

Opis

The first edition of "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" reconceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic and social crises that engulfed China - and indeed much of the rest of the socialist world - in the late 1980s, culminating in the 1989 democratic movement and its suppression, stimulated a rethinking of central propositions of the first edition. It particularly led the author to inquire anew into the meaning of socio-political as well as economic development in a populous and poor agrarian nation. This volume, then, assesses the economic performance and social consequences of China's political economy over four decades, with a focus on China's countryside and city-countryside relations. In addition to a reconceptualization and updating of the introductory chapter, there is a new chapter, "The Social Origins and Limits of the Chinese Democratic Movement."

Spis treści

List of Tables, Acknowledgments and Reflections, 1. Rethinking China’s Socialist Economic Development, 2. Marxism and the Peasantry: Collectivization and Strategies of Socialist Agrarian Development, 3. Cooperation and Conflict: Cooperative and Collective Formation in China’s Countryside, 4. Original Accumulation, Equality, and Late Industrialization: The Cases of Socialist China and Capitalist Taiwan With Chih-ming Ka, 5. Income Inequality and the State in Rural China, 6. City versus Countryside? The Social Consequences of Development Choices in China, 7. The Reform of Landownership and the Political Economy of Contemporary China, 8. The Social Origins and Limits of the Chinese Democratic Movement, Notes, References, Index

O autorze

Selden, Mark