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In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China: IDS Development Studies Series

Autor Gordon White, Jude A. Howell, Shang Xiaoyuan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 aug 1996
Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. China's reformers have highlighted the need to curb the awesome power of the Leninist state and change the balance of power between state and economy, state and society. In practice, the economic reforms have set in train a process of potentially fundamental social and institutional change in China which is creating new socio-economic forces, shifting power in their direction, and raising the possibility of political transformation. This book explores the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of `civil society', defined in sociological terms as the emergence of an autonomous sphere of voluntary associations capable of organizing the interests of emergent socio-economic groups and counterbalancing the hitherto unchallenged dominance of the Marxist-Leninist state. the authors lay out a clear operational definition of the concept of civil society to make it useful as a tool for empirical inquiry and avoid the cultural relativism of its origins in Western historical experience.Guided by this theoretical framework, the book brings together a vast amount of empirical data on emergent social organization and institutions in contemporary China, drawing on the authors' extensive fieldwork experience in East Asia. It is based on interviews, survey questionnaires, and copious documentary sources, buttressed by in-depth case studies of specific localities over a two-year period from 1991 to 1993. the research focused on the changes in the socio-economic realities of three major social groups - urban manual workers, women, and managers/entrepreneurs. The primary emphasis is on transformations in urban China, though detailed rural case studies of Xiaoshan and Nanhai are included to provide comparative context. The authors describe the new forms of state-society relations, as reflected in the complex links between the state and new associations. They show how the expansion of these associations is jeopardized by the lack of general democratization of China's political institutions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198289562
ISBN-10: 0198289561
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: tables
Dimensiuni: 162 x 243 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Clarendon Press
Colecția Clarendon Press
Seria IDS Development Studies Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

well-researched and conceptually well-framed book. ... White, Howell and Shang have produced a valuable empirical study that will provide a benchmark for future studies of the ongoing transformation of Chinese organizations.
This book, based on careful document surveys and well-organized fieldwork, is the first systematic examination of associational life in China that has ever appeared in English ... an indispensable reference for anyone interested in gaining a profound insight into state-society relations, in China in particular, and in transitional Communism in general. It will provide scholars with much valuable empirical information conducive to further theoretical inquiry in the field of Communist and post-Communist studies.
Anyone interested in the phenomenon of new social organisations, the changes within mass organisations and the interaction between intermediate organisations and the state will find this volume valuable reading.
...an excellent book on social organization and associational life in China. - Flemming Christiansen. Political Studies Association. 1998.