Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992
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Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution
Asiatic mode of production
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Bourgeois liberalization
Capitalism
Capitalist roader
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China
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chinese economic reform
Chinese titles
Classical Marxism
Commodity
Communism
Communist party
Communist state
Confucianism
Counter-revolutionary
Criticism of capitalism
Criticisms of socialism
Cultural Revolution
Democratic socialism
Deng Liqun
Deng Xiaoping
Economic liberalization
Economic planning
Economic System of Socialism
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Feudal fascism
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Hu Qiaomu
Hu Yaobang
Ideology
Imperialism
Kuomintang
Leftist errors (Yugoslavia)
Leninism
Liberal democracy
Mao Zedong
Maoism
Market socialism
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Marxist philosophy
Microeconomic reform
Neo-Confucianism
New Economic Policy
Orthodox Marxism
Ownership
Peng Dehuai
Peng Zhen
People's Republic
Politics of China
Praetorianism
Primary stage of socialism
Proletarian revolution
Reformism
Revisionism (Marxism)
Scientific socialism
Sino-Soviet split
Social revolution
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Socialist economics
Socialist Education Movement
Socialist mode of production
Socialist state
State capitalism
State ownership
Theoretician (Marxism)
Wang Ruowang
Yan Jiaqi
Zhao Ziyang
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029986
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms.
She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries.
Yan Sun is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Queens College of the City University of New York.
