The Price of China's Economic Development: Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights - Couverture rigide

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Hong, Zhaohui

 
9780813161150: The Price of China's Economic Development: Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0813161150 ISBN 13 : 9780813161150
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015

Synopsis

The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, and from centralized planning to market-based economics. As the world strives to understand the nation's rapid development, few observers have comprehensively examined the social and cultural price of the economic boom for the majority of the Chinese people.

Zhaohui Hong assesses the sociocultural consequences of these reforms in this provocative study. He contends that modern China functions as an oligarchy or plutocracy ruled by an alliance of political power and private capital where the boundaries between the private and public sectors are constantly shifting. This "power-capital institution" based on three millennia of Confucian ideology and decades of Maoist communism exercises monopolistic control of public resources at the expense of civil society and social justice for the majority of citizens.

The Price of China's Economic Development urges policymakers to alter their analytic lens. While industrial and commercial development is quantitatively measured, Hong argues that social progress should be assessed qualitatively, with justice its ultimate goal and fair allocation of resources and opportunity as the main index of success. This sophisticated analysis introduces English speakers to the varied and significant work of contemporary Chinese scholars and substantially enriches the international dialogue.

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À propos de l?auteur

Zhaohui Hong, professor of economic history at Purdue University Calumet, is the author or coeditor of several books, including Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemin's China.

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Éditeur
The University Press of Kentucky
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813161150
ISBN 13 
9780813161150
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
308
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