This article investigates important and interrelated issues regarding China. It seeks to
understand China's current social formation, setting out the relationship between China and …

Contemporary China here is understood as a 'contender state'resisting subordination to the
liberal West. Previous contenders, from France, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union, all …

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey
that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed …

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In the closing decades of the twentieth century, China defied the best predictions of
development economists and Sinologists alike in compiling a stunning record of economic …

Since embarking on a programme of economic reform in late 1978, China has moved, albeit
in an incremental fashion with periodic stops and starts, towards market capitalism. In 1993 …

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy
and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of …

China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is
a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Their success has been phenomenal …

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just
forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to …

Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the
rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the …