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"This work provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of major political, social, economic, and cultural trends in China." —Roger des Forges, author of Chinese Walls in Time and Space The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, and from centralized planning to market-based economics. As the world strives to understand the nation's rapid development, few observers have comprehensively examined the social and cultural price of the economic boom for the majority of the Chinese people. Zhaohui Hong assesses the sociocultural consequences of these reforms in this provocative study. He contends that modern China functions as an oligarchy or plutocracy ruled by an alliance of political power and private capital where the boundaries between the private and public sectors are constantly shifting. This "power-capital institution" based on three millennia of Confucian ideology and decades of Maoist communism exercises monopolistic control of publ

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Author

Hong, Zhaohui [Hong, Zhaohui]

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813161174

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, Business