From Mao to market
Subtitle: China reconfigured
By: Robin Porter
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781849040846; 9781849040839
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic policy; Mixed economy; Histoire; Gouvernements; Politique de croissance; Politique économique; Economic history; Ekonomisk politik; Historia; Politik och förvaltning
Description: Drawing on decades of research and teaching on China, Robin Porter presents a nuanced view of the country's modem evolution and historical influences. Porter visited China during the Cultural Revolution and worked as an editor at the Xinhua News Agency during the 1970s. In this volume, he explicitly accounts for the factors that gave rise to the country's current trends and behaviours, providing a rich understanding of an unpredictable though formidable world power.

Porter begins with China's social and political development from its earliest times to the modern period and concludes with a look at the country today, reassessing the events that most determined its evolution He concentrates on the role played by politics and culture in conditioning every aspect of Chinese life His analysis considers the country's Confucian heritage, ideological and legal orthodoxy, political command structures, technological innovation, enterprise management, public policy, private goals, and prospects for democracy Through his personal insight and informed perspective, Porter clarifies a number of mysteries about modern China and the implications of its expansion for the balance of world power. Most important, he provides crucial context for the "China dimension" that has become so central to discussions of western national and international policy. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- 1.; title: Modernization, development and change -- -- 2.; title: Historical factors and objective constraints -- -- 3.; title: China under the People's Republic -- -- 4.; title: From Marxism to marketism -- -- 5.; title: The Confucian heritage in theory and practice -- -- 6.; title: Orthodoxy, ideology and law -- -- 7.; title: Technology and political power -- -- 8.; title: Command structures -- -- 9.; title: Politics, culture and the management of China's enterprises -- -- 10.; title: Public policies, private goals -- -- 11.; title: The fifth modernization.