Provides a sweeping, critical account of the political and economic changes that have transformed China since 1949, challenging conventional analyses.
Autorentext
Authored by Schaeffer, Robert K.
Zusammenfassung
Red Inc. takes issue with the view that economic development will eventually promote democracy. It outlines in detail the enormous social costs of the rapid rise of China's economy. Although many observers argue that Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalism to China in the late 1970s, Schaeffer believes that capitalist development really began during the 1950s under Mao Zedong. But although Mao made relentless efforts to generate the capital needed to finance economic development, his regime failed to promote any real growth. Schaeffer shows that the remarkable rise of its economy in recent years has provided China with new and often corrupt sources of wealth and power that have enabled it to resist democracy. He brings into sharp focus the consequence of the regime's uncompromising approach to capital accumulation.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Agrarian Reform and the Consolidation of Power; Chapter 2 The Collectivization of Agriculture and the Great Leap Forward; Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution; Chapter 4 A Crisis of Succession; Chapter 5 The Reforms; Chapter 6 Dictatorship, Democracy, and Tiananmen Square; Chapter 7 Economic Crises in Democratizing States and the Foreign Investment Flood in China; Chapter 8 US Accommodation and the China Market; Chapter 9 Democracy Deterred; conclusion Conclusion;
Titel
Red Inc.
Untertitel
Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949-2009
Autor
EAN
9781317253105
ISBN
978-1-317-25310-5
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
17.11.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.96 MB
Anzahl Seiten
272
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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