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This dissertation provides a distinct class-based explanation of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism. Its overarching argument is that the way in which urban industrial workers – ideologically and rhetorically celebrated as the “leading class” of Chinese socialism – interacted with the Party-state in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s was a crucial causal ingredient in the making of China’s transition to capitalism. More specifically, this dissertation argues that the patterns and modes of interaction between workers and the Party-state during this period shaped and derailed the Party leaders’ efforts to pursue incipient marketization within the parameters of socialism (i.e. to build “market socialism” in China). Whereas the post-Mao Party leadership turned to market socialism as a way out of the profound crisis of the late 1970s, the patterns and modes of interaction between urban industrial workers and the Party-state set off one crisis after another throughout the 1980s. China’s market socialism collapsed within a decade under the strain of these intensifying crisis cycles. It was only in the context of such derailment of China’s market socialism did a full-blow

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Author

Yueran Zhang

Published

2024

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences