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 …

Capitalism in China? Comparative Perspectives Page 1 199 9 Capitalism in China?
Comparative Perspectives Iván Szelényi [There are two distinct kinds of intellectual resource …

In this essay, I argue that China hosts an emerging capitalist society. Studying the nature of
this capitalism will allow us to evaluate and reassess the definition and theories of capitalism …

The collapse of the Soviet bloc nations was taken by many as vindication of capitalism's
success, proof of socialism's inevitable failure, and evidence for the desirability of a …

Since 1978, the end of the Mao era, economic growth in China has outperformed every
previous economic expansion in modern history. While the largest Western economies …

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 …

There is little doubt that in terms of speed and scale, China's economic transformation is
without parallel in the past. Never has the world seen a major economic power emerge in …

This paper is challenging mainstream views about the contemporary Chinese system as a
developmental state and a variety of capitalism. Based on a comparative analytical model …

Abstract In China, when the Four Modernizations programme was launched in 1978, it was
announced that rapid development and growth would be achieved by'using capitalism to …

The purpose of this volume as laid out in Chapters 1 and 2 is to apply the capitalist lens to
China's emergent political economy and thereby create a comparatively accurate …