The Chinese reassessment of socialism 1976-1992 / by Yan Sun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, Yan, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China.

Communism.

Socialism--China.

Socialism.

China--Economic policy--1976-2000.

China.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 352 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. The Affirmation, Development, and Negation of Marxism

CHAPTER TWO. From the Whatever to the Dialectical Materialist Approach

CHAPTER THREE. Competing Models of the Socialist Economy

CHAPTER FOUR. The Reassessment of the Socialist Economic System

CHAPTER FIVE. The Noncompeting Nature of the Socialist Political System

CHAPTER SIX. The Reassessment of the Socialist Political System

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Reconceptualization of Socialism

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Response to the ''Liberal'' Reassessment of Socialism

CHAPTER NINE. The Chinese and Soviet Reassessments of Socialism: A Comparison

CHAPTER TEN. The Post-Mao Reassessment of Socialism and the Chinese Socialist Experience

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-340) and index.

ISBN:

9786612752278

9781400807895

1400807891

9781400813599

140081359X

9781282752276

1282752278

9781400821754

1400821754

OCLC:

705526996