Is China capitalist or socialist? The debate never ceases to cause controversy. The
Communist Party of China (CPC), especially, completely denies that China has anything at …

It has been 40 years since Deng Xiaoping broke dramatically with Maoist ideology and the
Maoist variant of socialism. Since then, China has been transformed. Forty years ago, in …

" Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also
for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins" Democracy Is a …

The first question that springs to mind when analyzing China as a capitalist political
economy is whether China can by any means be termed such. In fact, when I recently …

Some hold that the reason China does not have democracy is because its traditional
political culture forms an insuperable barrier to the establishment of democratic institutions …

Is China still building socialism or has it already built capitalism? Or maybe both? Or maybe
none of those two systems? Or maybe with the market reforms that deviate from the …

Over the last decade, the Communist regime in China has undertaken a restructuring of
Chinese socialism. Most dramatic of the changes initiated by the regime is the redefinition of …

In the discussion below, I consider the interpretive possibilities of a conceptualization of
Chinese socialism that is primarily deconstructive in intention, although it may also provide …

It is a widely-held belief that the growth of material wealth yields increasing social
tranquillity, but studies of modernization have long revealed that certain stages of economic …

The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains
how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international …