Making Capitalism in Rural China
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Published: Mar 31, 2012
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780857934093
Description: This stimulating and challenging book explores the duplicitous nature of development in China. On the positive side, it brings longer and healthier lives; fewer children dead before they are five years old; more comfort and security from famine and disaster; more education; more communication; more travel; less war. But from another, darker perspective, development brings violence to some people - those who are in the way of the new things, those who cannot adapt to the new ways - and it threatens old knowledges, habits and societies as it disrupts old power structures.