Ten Crises - The Political Economy of China's Development (1949-2020)

This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic historyof China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factorsleading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, andexamining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by thegovernment to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights intoChina's endeavours and predicaments on the path of modernization, andcontemplates opportunities and lessons for the forging of alternative trajectoriesnot only for China but also for the global south: to reconstruct rural communitiesfor integrated cooperation and governance, and to revitalize ecological civilization.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950.- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976.- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996.- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008.- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.

About the author

Wen Tiejun is Director of the Centre of Rural Revitalization, Peking University;
Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest
University; and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the
Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar
on macro-economics and agrarian issues, Independent Non-Executive Director of
Postal Savings Bank of China, and policy advisor to the State Council and the
Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.

Product details

• Authors: La Kin Chi, Lau Kin Chi, Kin-chi Lau, Tsu Sit, Tsui Sit, We Tiejun, Wen Tiejun, Si Tsui, Sit Tsui, Tieju Wen, Tiejun Wen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2021
• EAN: 9789811604546
• ISBN: 978-981-1604-54-6
• No. of pages: 510
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 34 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XXXII, 510 p. 53 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Series: Global University for Sustaina; Global University for Sustainability Book Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics