The Chinese labyrinth
Subtitle: exploring China's model of development
By: edited by Baogang Guo and He Li
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780739165751
Subjects: Politics and government; Political development
Description: From the publisher. The on-going debate on China's development model presents a fascinating yet very different image of Chinese exceptionalism, an idea that is similar to American exceptionalism. Is China exceptionalism a myth or reality? Will modern China, born of Confucian creeds, be culturally, economically and politically distinct from Western industrialized nations in an age of globalization? Does the Confucian culture make any qualitative difference in China's developmental path and her international behavior in dealing with other nations? Will China be something of a paradox? Will this claim of distinction be a double-edged sword that will eventually hunt China in its future development? To decipher the complex Chinese labyrinth, this coedited book explores the development of a new social democracy, the Chinese vision of human rights and civil society, the asymmetry between economic and political development and the puzzle it presents, and the informal politics and Chinese innovation on governance and problem solving. We will also present a number of studies detailing innovations and systems that are distinctively Chinese, including innovations at local governances, the intriguing relationship between NGOs and the state, the grievance-addressing system (xinfang), and the co-existence of atheists and theists in China. As a multi-disciplinary research project, it attempts to shed some lights on these important questions.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Rapid economic growth without economic freedom: a puzzle made in China / Congsheng Wu and Siyuan Zhou; title: Beyond the China paradigms: comparative studies of property rights and rent-seeking politics / Xiaobo Hu; title: The Chinese discourse on social democracy / He Li; title: The tension between governance and state-buliding / Jianxing Yu and Ziying He; title: Local governance innovations and their sustainability / Xinjun Gao and Baogang Guo; title: The (d)evolution of human rights in China / Michael Kilburn and Vitaly Kozyrev; title: China's religious policies in the post-Mao period: co-existence of atheists and theists / Yiran Zhou; title: China's petition system and its effects on social stability and regime legitimacy / Lacey Bradley-Storey; title: Globalization and transformation of China's welfare regime / Huisheng Shou.