20th century chinese history
20th century chinese politics
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Author_Margaret M. Pearson
business
business associations
business corruption
business development
business elite
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changes
china
class studies
development economics
economic development
economic reform
economics
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foreign investment
growth economics
market economy
political behavior
political change
political corruption
politics
post mao china
private enterprise
socialist corporatism
standard of living
state society relations
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219335
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a new class - China's new business elite. Margaret M. Pearson considers the impact that this new class is having on China's politics. She concludes that, contrary to the assumptions of Westerners, these groups are not at the forefront of the emergence of a civil society; rather, they are part of a system shaped deliberately by the Chinese state to ensure that economic development will not lead to democratization.
Margaret M. Pearson is Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, and author of Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: The Control of Foreign Direct Investment under Socialism (1991).
