In Search of Civil Society Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China |
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| Author:
| White, Gordon
Howell, Jude A.
Shang Xiaoyuan, Shang |
| Series title: | IDS Development Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-828956-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $220.00 |
Book Description:
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This empirical study of China's economic and social transition focuses on the social effects of the emergence of the developed market economy in post-Mao China. The study is based on extensive fieldwork on the changes in the eonomic reality of three major social groups - manual workers, women, and managers/entrepreneurs. The primary emphasis is on transformations in urban China, though, for contrast, one chapter is devoted to a detailed case study of a rural countyin Guangdong. The...
More DescriptionThis empirical study of China's economic and social transition focuses on the social effects of the emergence of the developed market economy in post-Mao China. The study is based on extensive fieldwork on the changes in the eonomic reality of three major social groups - manual workers, women, and managers/entrepreneurs. The primary emphasis is on transformations in urban China, though, for contrast, one chapter is devoted to a detailed case study of a rural countyin Guangdong. The authors describe the state corporatism in social and political life that has resulted from the transition from centralization of power in the Leninist state to a new form ofassociationism relatively independent from the state but jeopardized by the lack of general democratization of the political institutions. Their anlaysis turns on the concept of `civil society' - the means whereby members of society can limit the power of the state and transform it in the direction of liberal democracy.