Community Capitalism in China - The State, the Market, and Collectivism

Informationen zum Autor Xiaoshuo Hou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St Lawrence University. Her research interests include the sociology of development, economic sociology, the sociology of organizations and the socioeconomic transformations in China. She has published extensively in The Journal of Asian Studies, Theory and Society, Contemporary Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Theory, Culture and Society. Currently, she is co-editing the five-volume Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. She received her PhD from Boston University. Klappentext Hou offers a 'both/and' perspective of the state, market, capitalism and communism by examining the local institutional innovation in China. Zusammenfassung Hou offers the 'both/and' perspective and discusses the intertwining of the economy! the state and social relations. Focusing on three villages in China - Nanjie! Huaxi and Shangyuan - with collectively owned enterprises! villagers become shareholders in these enterprises and receive social welfare benefits and/or dividends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The curse revisited: the dynamics of social change in China; 2. Circle on the outside, square on the inside; 3. Socialism with Huaxi characteristics; 4. Capitalism reborn or collectivism rediscovered; 5. Back to the future: community capitalism and the search for alternatives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Xiaoshuo Hou, Xiaoshuo (St Lawrence University Hou, Hou Xiaoshuo
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107030466
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03046-6
• Pagine: 164
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; China, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Economics, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade