The price of China's economic development : power, capital, and the poverty of rights /

The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, a...

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Main Author: Hong, Zhaohui, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Series:Asia in the new millennium.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A tale of two Chinas: power-capital China and rights-deprived China
  • Economy: the marriage between power and money
  • Entrepreneurs: from "Red Capitalists" to intellectual elites
  • Political culture: combining tradition and innovation with "Chinese Characteristics"
  • Urban China: the forgotten corners
  • Rural China: the divested farmers
  • Migrant laborers: from economic deprivation to soical segregation
  • Protestant house churches: from legal exclusion to religious repression
  • Conclusion: the linkage between the power-capital institution and the poverty of rights.