Format:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107030466
,
9781139612906
Content:
Hou offers the 'both/and' perspective and discusses the intertwining of the economy, the state and social relations. Focusing on three villages in China - Nanjie, Huaxi and Shangyuan - with collectively owned enterprises, villagers become shareholders in these enterprises and receive social welfare benefits and/or dividends
Note:
Cover -- Community Capitalism in China -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- One. The Curse Revisited: The Dynamics of Social Change in China -- "Partial Reform" -- The Market Transition Debate -- Social Networks and the Market -- Community Capitalism -- About the Book -- Two. Circle on the Outside, Square on the Inside -- A Historical Dialectic: Collectivization-De-collectivization-Re-collectivization -- Industrialization: The Way to Get Rich -- Social Welfare: Building a Socialist Heaven -- The Village at First Glance -- Slogans and Chairman Mao -- The Search for Equality -- Behind the Scene -- A Two-Tiered System -- Monolith or Mosaic? -- Nanjie's "Resident Aliens" -- Circle on the Outside and Square on the Inside -- A Political Conspiracy? -- Some Final Comments -- On Mao Zedong Thought and Nanjie -- On Collectivism and Nanjie -- Three. Socialism with Huaxi Characteristics -- A Brief Village History -- Socialism, Huaxi-Style -- The Dominant Leader: A Patriarchal System of Management -- The System of Distribution: Ability versus Needs -- Culture and Ideology -- Four. Capitalism Reborn or Collectivism Rediscovered? -- Wenzhou and the Private Economy -- Developing a Private Economy in China -- The Wenzhou Model -- Shangyuan Village: Supplementing the Private with the Public -- A Shareholding Land Cooperative -- An Overview of the Village -- Small Party, Big People -- Five. Back to the Future: Community Capitalism and the Search for Alternatives -- Ownership Structures -- Institutional Structures -- Culture and Social Networks -- The Rationality of Collectivism and Community Capitalism -- Appendix A. Methodology -- Appendix B. Map of Site Locations -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hou, Xiaoshuo Community Capitalism in China New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107030466
Language:
English
Keywords:
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