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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495871703321

Autore

Pearson Margaret M. <1959->

Titolo

China’s new business elite : the political consequences of economic reform / / Margaret M. Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

0-520-92314-6

0-585-10115-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 207 pages)

Disciplina

338.951

Soggetti

Businesspeople - China - History

Entrepreneurship - China - History

Elite (Social sciences) - China - History

Businesspeople - History - China

Entrepreneurship - History - China

Elite (Social sciences) - History - China

China Politics and government 1976-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. China's New Business Elite: A Framework for Study -- 2. The Janus-Faced Role of the Business Elite in Chinese History -- 3. The Autonomy of China's New Business Elite -- 4. The Political Behavior of China's New Business Elite -- 5. The Socialist Corporatism of Business Associations -- 6. The Emergence of Hybrid State-Society Relations in Post-Mao China -- APPENDIX I . FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN CHINA, 1979-1995 -- APPENDIX 2 . THE RESEARCH SAMPLE -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a new class--China's new business elite. Margaret M. Pearson considers the impact that this new class is having



on China's politics. She concludes that, contrary to the assumptions of Westerners, these groups are not at the forefront of the emergence of a civil society; rather, they are part of a system shaped deliberately by the Chinese state to ensure that economic development will not lead to democratization.