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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464061403321

Autore

Hong Zhaohui <1959->

Titolo

The price of China's economic development : power, capital, and the poverty of rights / / Zhaohui Hong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8131-6117-7

0-8131-6118-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Asia in the New Millennium

Disciplina

338.951

Soggetti

Economic development - China

Human rights - China

Electronic books.

China Social conditions 1949-

China Economic conditions 1949-

China Politics and government 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Economy; 2 Entrepreneurs; 3 Political Culture; 4 Urban China; 5 Rural China; 6 Migrant Laborers; 7 Protestant House Churches; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, and from centralized planning to market-based economics. As the world strives to understand the nation's rapid development, few observers have comprehensively examined the social and cultural price of the economic boom for the majority of the Chinese people. Zhaohui Hong assesses the sociocultural consequences