The Price of China´s Economic Development: Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights
Zhaohui Hong
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Hardback. Series: Asia in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; KCG; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Asia in the New Millennium
Condition
New
Weight
587g
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813161150
SKU
V9780813161150
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About Zhaohui Hong
Zhaohui Hong, professor of economic history at Purdue University Calumet, USA, is the author or coeditor of several books, including Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemin’s China.
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