The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992 (eBook)

Yan Sun (Autor)

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1995
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2175-4 (ISBN)

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Yan Sun is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Queens College of the City University of New York.

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A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.1995
• Zusatzinfo: 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Anti-Capitalism • Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution • Asiatic mode of production • Beijing Spring • Bourgeois liberalization • Capitalism • Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory) • capitalist roader • China • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences • Chinese Economic Reform • Chinese titles • class conflict • Classical Marxism • Commodity • communism • Communist Party • communist state • Confucianism • counter-revolutionary • Criticism of capitalism • Criticisms of socialism • Cultural revolution • democratic revolution • Democratic Socialism • Deng Liqun • Deng Xiaoping • economic determinism • Economic ideology • Economic Liberalization • Economic planning • Economic System of Socialism • Feudal fascism • For Marx • General Secretary of the Communist Party of China • Hu Qiaomu • Hu Yaobang • Ideology • imperialism • Kuomintang • Law of Value • Leftist errors (Yugoslavia) • Leninism • Liang Qichao • liberal democracy • Lin Biao • Liu Shaoqi • Liu Xiaobo • Li Yining • Mainland China • Malthusianism • maoism • Mao Zedong • market socialism • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • Marxist Philosophy • Maurice Meisner • Microeconomic reform • Neo-Confucianism • New Class • New Economic Policy • Orthodox Marxism • Ownership • Peng Dehuai • Peng Zhen • People's Republic • Political rehabilitation • Politics • Politics of China • praetorianism • Primary stage of socialism • proletarian revolution • Reformism • Reform Movement • Revisionism (Marxism) • scientific socialism • Sino-Soviet split • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics • socialist economics • Socialist Education Movement • Socialist market economy • Socialist mode of production • Socialist society (Labour Party) • socialist state • social revolution • Stalinism • state capitalism • State Ownership • Superiority (short story) • Tax evasion • Theoretician (Marxism) • Wang Ruowang • Wei Jingsheng • Xinhua News Agency • Yan Jiaqi • Zhang Chunqiao • Zhao Ziyang • Zhou Enlai
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2175-4 / 1400821754
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2175-4 / 9781400821754