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Title Beyond the Middle Kingdom : comparative perspectives on China's capitalist transformation / edited by Scott Kennedy
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages)
Series Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Contents Overcoming our Middle Kingdom complex : finding China's place in comparative political economy / Scott Kennedy -- Variety within and without : the political economy of Chinese regulation / Margaret M. Pearson -- Developmental dreams : policy and reality in China's economic reforms / Arthur R. Kroeber -- Crossing the river by feeling for stones or carried across by the current? : the transformation of the Chinese automotive sector / Andrew Wedeman -- Welfare policy pathways among uneven developers / Mark W. Frazier -- Fragmented influence : business lobbying in China in comparative perspective / Scott Kennedy -- Comparing China's capitalists : neither democratic nor exceptional / Kellee S. Tsai -- When are banks sold to foreigners? : an examination of the politics of selling banks in Mexico, Korea, and China / Victor Shih -- Placing China in comparison : an outsider's perspective / Gregory J. Kasza
Summary This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of the country's distinctiveness due to its grand size and long history. The moniker Middle Kingdom, a direct translation of the Chinese-language word for China, is one of the most prominent symbols of the country's supposed uniqueness. Composed of contributions from leading specialists on China's political economy, this volume demonstrates the benefits of systematically comparing China with other countries, including France, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Doing so puts the People's Republic in a light not available through other approaches, and it provides a chance to consider political theories by including an important case too often left out of studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-232) and index
Notes English
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Subject Capitalism -- China
Comparative economics.
Comparative government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Capitalism
Comparative economics
Comparative government
Economic history
Economic policy
Politics and government
Politisches System.
Kapitalismus.
Internationaler Vergleich.
Wirtschaftsreform.
Reformpolitik.
Ekonomisk politik -- Kina.
Jämförande politik.
Kapitalism -- Kina.
SUBJECT China -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024018
China -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024011
China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
Subject China
China.
Kina -- politik och förvaltning.
Form Electronic book
Author Kennedy, Scott, 1967-
LC no. 2010049968
ISBN 9780804777674
0804777675