Market Maoists - The Communist Origins of Chinas Capitalist Ascent

Chinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign capitalists to finance the revolution. Mao continued to promote trade after 1949. Jason Kelly shows how global deals kept China embedded in markets and their norms, laying the groundwork for the capitalist reforms of the 1980s.

About the author

Jason M. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University and Nonresident Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He was previously a Foreign Service Officer at the US Embassy in Beijing.

Summary

Chinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign capitalists to finance the revolution. Mao continued to promote trade after 1949. Jason Kelly shows how global deals kept China embedded in markets and their norms, laying the groundwork for the capitalist reforms of the 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Jason M Kelly, Jason M. Kelly, Kelly Jason M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780674986497
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98649-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; popular science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, Economic history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Asian History, Marxism & Communism