This chapter discusses the developing relationship between China and the Western core
nations within the context of the capitalist world system. Since the demise of'real-existing …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book explores the evolutions and dynamics of China's …

China's rise in the present global economy has been very fast by historical records. In three
decades, China has shifted from a poor developing country to the status of global power …

This article raises serious methodological, conceptual, historical and empirical questions
concerning the notion of China as the next world superpower. The most dynamic sector of …

During the cold war era, China was generally seen by the Left in the West as a model of
revolutionary socialism. The Left was especially attracted to the Maoist policies of public …

In the past two decades, China has emerged as the major challenger to the United States's
leading position in the global economy and, to a lesser extent, as the world's foremost …

Since its reopening in the 1980s, China has been progressively reclaiming the place it
enjoyed in the world economy prior to the industrial revolution and the colonization of China …

China's rise within global society and politics has brought it into the spotlight-for social
scientists, the country's long and dramatic transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first …

China's engagement with global capitalism is driven by the emergence of a statist and
private transnational capitalist class. Nevertheless, aspects of China's foreign policy from the …

In a little more than half a century, China has left behind mass poverty, extreme
backwardness, and economic and political isolation to march onto the global stage as a …