Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China
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Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China
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Author : Qi Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-05
Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China written by Qi Zhang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-05 with Political Science categories.
Why do political elites in authoritarian regimes, even within the same country, engage in different levels of predatory behavior, whereby some foster vibrant capitalism and others suffocate the innovative private sector? This book proposes a theory of localized property-rights protection under authoritarianism. By combining in-depth fieldwork with archival research and quantitative data analysis, Qi Zhang and Mingxing Liu discuss the post-1949 conflicts between dominant and marginalized factions in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. These conflicts resulted in systemic vulnerabilities among the marginalized local cadres, thus motivating them to form alliances with their grassroots constituents. They therefore provided their constituents with quasi-public goods, such as property-rights protection, to increase their odds of political survival. Zhang and Liu argue that this framework can apply both to the Mao era and to the current reform era, and it also can be extended beyond China to a wider context.
Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China
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Author : Qi Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-21
Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China written by Qi Zhang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Education categories.
Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.
Unending Capitalism
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Author : Karl Gerth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-14
Unending Capitalism written by Karl Gerth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-14 with Business & Economics categories.
In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.
Precarious Ties
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Author : Meg Rithmire
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Precarious Ties written by Meg Rithmire and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Business & Economics categories.
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships between the state and business. But these relationships have not always been smooth, as anti-corruption campaigns, financial and banking crises, and dramatic bouts of liberalization and crackdown demonstrate. Why do partnerships between political and business elites fall apart over time? And why do some partnerships produce stable growth and others produce crisis or stagnation? In Precarious Ties, Meg Rithmire offers a novel account of the relationships between business and political elites in three authoritarian regimes in developing Asia: Indonesia under Suharto's New Order, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and China under the Chinese Communist Party. All three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in Indonesia and China created dangerous dynamics like capital flight, fraud, and financial crisis, Malaysia's state-business ties contributed to economic stagnation. To understand these developments, Rithmire presents two conceptual models of state-business relations that explain their genesis and why variation occurs over time. She shows that mutual alignment occurs when an authoritarian regime organizes its institutions, or even its informal practices, to induce capitalists to invest in growth and development. Mutual endangerment, on the other hand, obtains when economic and political elites are entangled in corrupt dealings and invested in perpetuating each other's dominance. The loss of power on one side would bring about the demise of the other. Rithmire contends that the main factors explaining why one pattern dominates over the other are trust between business and political elites, determined during regime formation, and the dynamics of financial liberalization. Empirically rich and sweeping in scope, Precarious Ties offers lessons for all nations in which the state and the private sector are deeply entwined.
The State And Capitalism In China
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Author : Margaret M. Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-29
The State And Capitalism In China written by Margaret M. Pearson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-29 with Political Science categories.
China's contemporary political economy features an emboldened role for the state as owner and regulator, and with markets expected to act in the service of party-state goals. How has the relationship between the state and different types of firms evolved? This Element situates China's reform-era political economy in comparative analytic perspective with attention to adaptations of its model over time. Just as other types of economies have generated internal dynamics and external reactions that undermine initial arrangements, so too has China's political economy. While China's state has always played a core role in development, over time prioritization of growth has shifted to a variant of state capitalism best described as, “party-state capitalism,” which emphasizes risk management and leadership by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Rather than reflecting long-held intentions of the CCP, the transition to party-state capitalism emerged from reactions to perceived threats and problems, some domestic and some external. These adaptations are refracted in the contemporary crises of global capitalism.This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
China After Mao
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-29
China After Mao written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with History categories.
_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the Year Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle. In charting four decades of so-called 'Reform and Opening Up' and China's emergence as a world power, Dikötter tells a fascinating tale of contradictions and illusions, of shadow banking, anti-corruption drives and extreme state wealth standing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's approach to the 2008 financial crash, the country's increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship – one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. Ultimately, the book concludes, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic sphere, but to resist it – and then defeat it. Praise for Frank Dikötter and the People's Trilogy: 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'The historian of China' Spectator 'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman 'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times 'Gripping and masterful' - Simon Sebag Montefiore
How China Works
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Author : Xiaohuan Lan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-03-15
How China Works written by Xiaohuan Lan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with Business & Economics categories.
This book, a bestseller in China with over a million copies sold, depicts the role played by the Chinese government in China‘s economic development. It explains how the Chinese government has gradually established and improved market mechanisms while promoting economic growth. The book particularly points out that the Chinese government not only governs the economy through policy guidance but also directly participates in the process of urbanization and industrialization as part of the market. It also introduces the specific mechanisms of government involvement in economic activities, which forms a bridge between economic theory and the reality of China. This book, a winner of the Wenjin Book Award by the National Library of China, will be an invaluable reference for scholars seeking to understand China‘s economic policy and government system reform in the years to come.
Localized Bargaining
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Author : Xiao Ma
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
Localized Bargaining written by Xiao Ma and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Political Science categories.
Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's unprecedented high-speed railway program. Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities--whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projects--shaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on how the nation's massive bureaucracy actually functions.
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Author : 馮客（Frank Dikötter）
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 聯經出版事業公司
Release Date : 2023-01-01
written by 馮客（Frank Dikötter） and has been published by 聯經出版事業公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with History categories.
★塞繆爾．約翰遜獎得主、當代中國史學巨擘、人民三部曲作者力作★ 揭破從毛澤東去世到習近平上台，中國經濟發展神話的謊言 中國觀察家詹姆斯．帕默（James Palme）：「誰都不了解中國，包括中國政府。」 中國前總理李克強：「中國國內生產總值的數字是人造的，不可靠。」 中國經濟奇蹟下的真實情況，是國富民窮、嚴重貧富不均； 經濟改革主要目的，是為了維持政治壟斷、擊敗民主國家！ 中國看似走出文革的混亂，成為全球第二大經濟體，創造了經濟奇蹟； 有專家主張經濟改革必將帶動政治改革，中共會堅定不移地走向民主。 此一經濟奇蹟的真實性如何？中國經濟改革的主要目的是什麼？ 在政府追求表面數字成長、祭出荒謬政策的同時， 一般人民如何被壓迫、犧牲、反抗或掙扎求生存？ 中國又如何一步步朝向更加專制獨裁的方向發展？ 諸般假象由最勇於揭露真相、筆力最健的中國史學家馮客一一戳破！ 中國就一艘油輪，看似高大氣派，卻忙著在補破洞…… 「中共領導人並沒有明確的長遠規劃，也不清楚該如何引領這個國家一步步走向繁榮。中國就像一艘油輪，遠遠看上去顯得高大氣派，船長和副手們驕傲地站在艦橋上，可甲板下的水手正在拚命地抽水和堵破洞，以避免船隻沉沒。根本沒有什麼『宏偉計畫』，也沒有『祕密戰略』，有的只是無數偶發事件，以及無法預料的後果、出人意外的反轉和幕後無休止的權力鬥爭。」 「我相信，只有認清這一切，我們才能更加理解那段歷史。」 基於數十年親身走訪中國的經驗，加上對數百份共產黨機密檔案的解讀，並參考毛澤東私人祕書李銳的祕密日記，馮客對中國如何走出文革災難，並由此崛起的過程做了引人入勝的描述。從鄉村到工業大都市，再到黨內高層的祕密會議，帶領讀者深入了解這個國家史無前例的四十年經濟轉型——正是得益於這場轉型，中國從全球排名第一百二十六位躍升至第二大經濟體。 馮客大膽揭露，中國社會發展並非在黨的指揮下堅定地一路向前，而是充滿矛盾、錯覺和政治陰謀。書中提到中國僥倖躲過的災難、影子銀行、反腐大清洗、國家財富的急劇增長和民眾日常生活的貧困，同時審視中國應對金融危機的舉措、因懷疑西方政治干預從而對其日益滋生的敵意，以及如何透過構建龐大的安全機制和全球最先進的監控系統，發展成徹頭徹尾的獨裁政權。馮客直指，共產黨的目標從來不是加入民主世界，而是要與之對抗，並最終擊敗它。 媒體讚譽 敘述詳盡……對有關中國崛起的傳統觀點提出了重要修正。 ——《金融時報》 對於二戰以來中國崛起這一複雜現象，本書是最為深刻和最細緻的研究之一……引人入勝。 ——《外交信使雙月刊》 馮客是一位技巧嫻熟的作家，其作品無論是專業人士還是一般讀者都能輕鬆閱讀。 ——《華盛頓觀察家報》 對於中國如何在四十年內迅速崛起、從封閉的農業經濟轉變為全球超級大國的諸多解釋提出了挑戰……馮客這本研究深入的著作，為中國崛起這一研究領域做出重要貢獻。強烈推薦。 ——《Choice》 對1970年代初到2022年的中國歷史，呈現了令人信服且內容豐富的敘述和分析……充滿各種歷史祕辛和深刻的洞見，無論是研究者還是一般讀者都適合閱讀。 ——《書架通報》 對於中國經濟的驚人擴張，特別是政府所倚重的相關銀行業、產業、貿易和貨幣政策，馮客不僅做出了精彩的敘述，而且提出嚴厲的批評。 ——《科克斯評論》 揭穿了中國經濟奇蹟的神話……研究廣泛，論證有力，是中國觀察家的必讀之作。 ——《出版商週刊》 無論是探討政黨政治和經濟政策孰輕孰重，還是闡釋權力、生產力和抗議三者之間的微妙關係，馮客都能以極為清晰的語言，揭示其中錯綜複雜的聯繫。 ——《南華早報》