China was seen as shackled by its thousand-year-old bureaucracy—a bureaucracy that,
while guaranteeing longevity and territorial integrity through its authoritarian and predatoiy …

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 article examines China's political economy since the 1949 revolution from a state
capitalist perspective. The theoretical appeal of this perspective lies in how intense, military …

This essay traces the evolution of the political economy of China from the 1949 revolution up
to the triumph of Chinese capitalism in 1992. It first describes and discusses the tremendous …

China's stunning economic performance for the past three decades was not only
unexpected but contradicts much received wisdom in the study of development. Four …

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 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 …

Major wars and economic crises force the pace of change within and between capitalist
states, giving rise to new alignments and shifts in the geopolitics of world capitalism. At the …

In November 1991, the newly-introduced mobile telephone number 900-888—containing
three'lucky eights'—was auctioned by the local post bureau in Dalian, Northeast China, and …

This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China's rapid
international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the …