China's speedy rise as a global economic power has stunned the world. Less than a decade
ago, questions like 'Does China matter?'(the answer was 'no') appeared in influential …

and the Road to Chinese Democracy Page 1 Global Capitalism and the Road to Chinese
Democracy MICHAEL A. SANTORO he human rights case for expanding trade with China is …

This essay examines several works that contribute to an understanding of the nature of
contemporary Chinese capitalism and its historical development. Core issues include the …

Currently, the world system is in a state of complex crisis and transformation. The overall
influence of its US-led centre has weakened, and most of the global periphery is in either …

When external eyes turned to China 30 years ago (if they did at all), the focus was still on the
extent to which it might be breaking away from its socialist economic past. And though we …

Introduction The emergence of China as a state of potentially global significance is the
product of over fifty years of revolution, reform and renewal. By 2003, the People's Republic …

The end of the Cultural Revolution brought about an acute awareness among the Chinese
leadership that China's gap both with the developed countries and some of the developing …

China, once the dominant power in Asia and the wealthiest society on earth, fell rapidly from
that perch to suffer partial dismemberment and what its leaders refer to as the “century of …

O October 1 last year, China's Communist Party celebrated the country's National Day,
marking the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. As they did ten …