In search of civil society market reform and social change in contemporary China
Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. This book explores the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of `civil society',...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1996, 1996
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Series: | IDS development studies / IDS development studies
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. This book explores the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of `civil society', defined in sociological terms as the emergence of an autonomous sphere of voluntary associations capable of organizing the interests of emergent socio-economic groups and counterbalancing the hitherto unchallenged dominance of the Marxist-Leninist state |
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Physical Description: | x, 241 p. |
ISBN: | 9780191684739 |