Globalization and State Transformation in China.

Globalization and State Transformation in China.

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As China develops its economy, this 2004 book argues it will be held back by its refusal to import democratic values.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Zheng, Yongnian.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
Subjects:
China > Economic policy > 1976-2000.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1 Globalization: State decline or state rebuilding?
  • Globalizing China
  • The rise of information society
  • The weakening of the Chinese state
  • Globalization and the state
  • The argument
  • The organization
  • 2 The state, leadership and globalization
  • The scholarly context: the state and globalization
  • Globalization and the re-making of the state
  • Modern (Western) states
  • The state and the globalization of the state
  • Globalization and state transformation in China
  • The Chinese state as an agent of globalization
  • Globalization: Importation and innovation
  • 3 Globalism, nationalism and selective importation
  • Globalism as a mindset
  • Globalism as selective importation
  • Nationalism and globalism: Historical legacy
  • Political mobilization and identity building
  • Importation of Western state products
  • Reforms, legitimacy and selective importation
  • Developmentalism as political legitimacy
  • The failure of political reform in the 1980s
  • Growth-based legitimacy in the 1990s
  • Nationalism, selective importation and innovation
  • 4 Power, interests and the justification of capitalism: Constructing an interest-based political order
  • Passions for an interest-based social order
  • Economic expansion and political interests
  • The rise of an interest-based social order
  • How political order was affected
  • Against an interest-based political order
  • Constructing a new political order
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Bureaucratic reformand market accommodation
  • The dynamics of bureaucratic restructuring
  • Bureaucratic restructuring: An overview
  • The 1982 restructuring by Zhao Ziyang
  • The 1988 restructuring by Li Peng
  • The 1993 restructuring by Li Peng.
  • Market-building institutions under Zhu Rongji
  • Institution-building, 1998
  • Accommodating the market
  • Breaking the military links with business
  • The development of the Mini-State Council (SETC)
  • The ETO and Zhu's initial reform efforts
  • The SETC (1993)
  • The SETC (1998)
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Building a modern economic state: Taxation, finance and enterprise system
  • Taxation reform and the tax regime
  • Fiscal decentralization
  • The 1983-84 Reform: the li gai shui system
  • The 1987 Reform: the contract responsibility system
  • The institutional basis of central-local fiscal relations
  • The power shift between the center and the provinces
  • The 1994 Reform and fiscal federalism
  • Financial liberalization and centralization
  • Economic reform and banking institution-building
  • The Asian financial crisis and financial centralization
  • Central-local relations and the central bank
  • Banking centralization after the Asian financial crisis
  • Financial reform and a market economy
  • Building a modern enterprise system
  • Zhu Rongji's initial attempt
  • Corporatization attempts 1993-97
  • Reform of SOEs after 1997
  • Economic nationalism and state-building
  • 7 State rebuilding, popular protest and collective action
  • State-building and social movements
  • State rebuilding and its discontents in China
  • Information society and collective action
  • Income disparities and social grievance
  • Rural disparities
  • Urban disparities
  • Urban- rural disparities
  • Regional disparities
  • Corruption and moral decay
  • The rise of social protests: farmers and workers
  • Taxation reforms, rural burdens and farmers' protests
  • Capitalism, unemployment and labor movements
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Contending visions of the Chinese state: New Liberalism vs. the New Left
  • The rise of intellectual discourse in the post-Tiananmen era.
  • The neo-liberal discourse
  • The philosophical foundation
  • Globalism
  • Democracy
  • Civil society
  • Constitutionalism
  • The new left discourse
  • Against globalization
  • Against institutional fetishism
  • Statism
  • New collectivism
  • Political and economic democracy
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Globalization and towards a rule-based state governance?
  • Rule of law or rule by law
  • The party vs. the rule of law
  • The party and governance crisis
  • Return to tradition?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 1 Globalization: State decline or state rebuilding?
  • 2 The state, leadership and globalization
  • 3 Globalism, nationalism and selective importation
  • 4 Power, interests, and the justification of capitalism
  • 5 Bureaucratic reform and market accommodation
  • 6 Building a modern economic state
  • 7 State rebuilding, popular protest and collective action
  • 8 Contending visions of the Chinese state
  • 9 Globalization and towards a rule-based state governance?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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