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In search of civil society : market reform and social change in contemporary China
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Gordon, Author.
- Series:
- IDS development studies.
- IDS development studies series In search of civil society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Economic policy--1976-2000.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China--Social conditions--1976-2000.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 241 p.).
- Other Title:
- In search of civil society
- IDS development studies
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. This book explores the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of `civil society', defined in sociological terms as the emergence of an autonomous sphere of voluntary associations capable of organizing the interests of emergent socio-economic groups and counterbalancing the hitherto unchallenged dominance of the Marxist-Leninist state.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191684739 (ebook) :
- 0191684732 (ebook) :
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