1st Edition

China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated with the East Asian miracle? does China's Leninist political system and the heritage of a state-run-heavy-industrial sector present too great a burden for successful transformation? and what is the likelihood that China's party-state will ultimately collapse in a fashion similar to the Leninist governments of Europe? The findings and analyses should prove interesting to followers of China, East Asia as a whole, and the European postcommunist transition.

    Post-Collective Agrarian Alternatives in Russia and China, Mark Selden; China's Leninist Parliament and Public Sphere - a Comparative Analysis, Barrett L. McCormick; the Political Dynamics of Reform - Learning from the Soviet Experience, Graeme Gill; the Lessons of Economic and Political Reform in Eastern Europe, Robert F. Miller; Corporatism in China - a Developmental State in an East Asian Context, Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan; Chinese Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Wong Siu-lun; the Political Economy of Late Development in East Asia - China's Financial Reforms in Comparative Perspective, Gordon White and Paul Bowles; Chinese Enterprise Reform - Convergence with the Japanese Model?, Anita Chan; Concluding Thoughts - Reforming Socialism in China - Another New Dragon?, Barrett L. McCormick.

    Biography

    Barrett L. McCormick, Jonathan Unger