Dorothy J Solinger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 337513 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dorothy J Solinger |
| PRENOMES | Dorothy J |
| SOBRENOME | Solinger |
| ASSINATURA | SOLINGER D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Poverty and Pacification
This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China’s single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade Organization. Under these circumstances, leaders urged f…
Poverty and Pacification
lassic account of China's rural s her attention to the tens of s China's factories have been ng portrayal of how industrial who had once been promised , Johns Hopkins University; ineers and Disenfranchised dents is a work of meticulous ation presented alongside a emergence of China's social irty years.What marks this as receiving what help the state ey are central to the analysis, D, University of Edinburgh , Solinger offers a masterful with grav…
China's Old Working Class
For about a decade from the late 1990s until the early 2000s, the Chinese state commanded loss-making and other small- and medium-sized enterprises to dismiss tens of millions of older (over age 35), unskilled workers, as it prepared to join the World Trade Organization and the global market. These uncompetitive laborers were left with little or no income or benefits, and many protested. In response, the regime instituted a so-called "social assi…
Jennifer Pan, Welfare for Autocrats
Three Visions of Chinese Socialism
Three Visions of Chinese Socialism
The Floating Population in the Cities
Capitalist Measures with Chinese Characteristics
I wish to thank the Wuhan Foreign Affairs Office and the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang for their very great assistance in arranging interviews for me during the summers of 1987 and 1988. This chapter originally appeared in Problems of Communism 38, 1 (January/February 1989): 19-33. Reprinted with permission of Problems of Communism.
China's Transition from Socialism?: Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-90
The essays in this volume address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured centralised command system and to introduce some market principles to stimulate economic activity. The essays fall into four categories: theoretical and policy discus…
China's Transition from Socialism?
When Chinese Central Orders and Promotion Criteria Conflict
The 1999 relief plan for China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (called, for short, the dibao)—originally designed to assist all of the urban poor—changed by the mid-2000s, emphasizing employment, not handouts, for the able-bodied impecunious. Also, the center ordered that cities should subsidize just the most ill and needy. We find that only some Chinese cities—the less well-endowed and politically less prominent—responded to this shift by cutting…
Three Welfare Models and Current Chinese Social Assistance
To situate today's social assistance program conceptually and historically, this paper presents three ideal-typical stances states may adopt in welfare provision, especially for indigent populations: (1) extend assistance to accord with social citizenship rights—or to fulfill the Confucian concept of the rite of benevolence; (2) offer subsidies to attain support or to pacify anger and silence demands from the poor; or (3) grant benefits (educatio…
Social Assistance Under Capitalist Authoritarian Rule
This study uses a micro set of Chinese city-level data to understand the varying choices taken by municipal officials in their distribution of a minimum livelihood scheme. It explores the variation in the apportionment of allowances offered to disparate types of poor groups in poor versus wealthy cities. The paper argues that in China, where profits, modernisation, competition and globalisation have become significant to leaders at all levels, th…
Welfare, Wealth and Poverty in Urban China
In the broader social science literature, most studies of social protection investigate welfare in democracies, and at the national level, and typically assume that welfare is given in order to influence voting. This paper, to the contrary, considers social assistance in authoritarian China at the urban level. Its findings are compatible with an explanation that there are two dissimilar logics influencing the distributional decisions of lower-lev…
The New Urban Underclass and its Consciousness
This paper investigates whether the 22 million or so urban recipients of the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (the zuidi shenghuo baozhang), whose per capita family income falls below a locally set poverty line, can be called a ‘class’. It also explores if they experience ‘class consciousness’. It draws on theoretical writings on class and class consciousness, and on some seven dozen unstructured interviews in households of urban dibao recipients in …
Urban Poverty in China - By Fulong Wu, Chris Webster, Shenjing He and Yuting Liu
Les allocataires du dibao
on Comparative Urban Marginalization and Poverty), tenu Cardiff, Royaume-Uni, du 12 au 13 juin 2008
Political Change In China
Comparing and Rethinking Political Change in China and Taiwan - B. Gilley. Civil Society and the State. The Evolution of Political Values - Y.H. Chu. Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent - M. Goldman and A. Esarey. Religion and the Emergence of Civil Society - R. Madsen. Business Groups: For or Against the Regime? - D.J. Solinger. Regime Responses. Responsive Authoritarianism - R.P. Weller. Developing the Rule of Law - R. Peerenboom and W. Chen. Co…
Labor Discontent in China in Comparative Perspective
A prominent specialist on the political economy of China compares the responses of Chinese workers to globalization-induced job cuts and benefit reductions with those of workers in two quite different political contexts—France and Mexico. A hypothesis, based on the "terms of attachment" among states, workers, and their unions, is advanced to account for the quite different responses of labor (in terms of propensity to protest) to similar global e…
Unemployment in China
Regional government and political integration in southwest China, 1949-1954
Internationalizing China
The Master in Bondage
Building China
Radical Inequalities
The creation of a new underclass in China and its implications
The emergence of a new urban underclass in China is a major challenge confronting the Communist Party, and its potential for fomenting instability has unnerved the Party. A strong case can be made, however, that the members of this emerging group have been cast into their current plight chiefly as a result of the marketization reforms that the regime itself set into motion two and a half decades ago. The group is comprised of recently laid-off wo…
"China's Urban Transients in the Transition from Socialism and the Collapse of the Communist "Urban Public Goods Regime
Depuis quelques annees, de nombreux paysans chinois gagnent les villes. Cette exode rural constitue une menace pour les controles sociaux et economiques dans l'Etat socialiste. Si les menaces de poussee du marche, de contestations et de corruptions sont gerees, a long terme le regime des biens publics urbains risque de disparaitre : surveiller le Plan, planifier et administrer le regime de biens publics urbains sur la base de la population perman…
Citizenship Issues in China's Internal Migration
Journal Article Citizenship Issues in China's Internal Migration: Comparisons with Germany and Japan Get access Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger DOROTHY J. SOLINGER is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. She has just published Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market…
China's Transients and the State
Ending One-Party Dominance
The astonishing electoral victories by opposition presidential candidates in Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico all followed a remarkably similar pattern, but it is one that may lead to difficulties for democratic consolidation
Path Dependency Reexamined
Beginning a decade ago, the Communist Party of China engineered a huge strategic shift in its stance toward its urban labor force. For more than forty years it was the party of the proletariat, governing the cities under the rubric of full, life-time employment, paired with nearly universal welfare and security1 In the mid 1990s it began to abandon the working class and even to encourage massive layoffs of work ers in the name of greater efficien…
The Chinese Work Unit and Transient Labor in the Transition from Socialism
With the coming of economic reform in China, migrant peasant labor has entered industry in large numbers. Unlike such workers in the past-who served as temporaries from the communes contracted to produce in urban state firms, or who remained in the rural areas, toiling for their units in small industries (see Walder, 1986: 48-56)-this section of today's floating population' is working full-time, and in large numbers, as wage-compensated, individu…
Globalization and State Transformation in China
Three Welfare Models and Current Chinese Social Assistance
To situate today's social assistance program conceptually and historically, this paper presents three ideal-typical stances states may adopt in welfare provision, especially for indigent populations: (1) extend assistance to accord with social citizenship rights—or to fulfill the Confucian concept of the rite of benevolence; (2) offer subsidies to attain support or to pacify anger and silence demands from the poor; or (3) grant benefits (educatio…
Rural China Takes off
Chinese Urban Jobs and the WTO
Minority Nationalities in China's Yunnan Province
The varying experiences of different minority groups in China's Yunnan province are analyzed in light of the power resources that each possesses. The size, location, and impregnability of the group account for whether or not it can exert leverage on the regime in attempting to obtain cultural, political, and economic benefits. The author found that a group's assimilability, or its propensity to change its cultural traits, is negatively correlated…
Economic Reform Via Reformulation in China
Research Article| September 01 1981 Economic Reform Via Reformulation in China: Where do Rightist Ideas come from? Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1952) 21 (9): 947–960. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643824 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools G…
When Chinese Central Orders and Promotion Criteria Conflict
The 1999 relief plan for China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (called, for short, the dibao)—originally designed to assist all of the urban poor—changed by the mid-2000s, emphasizing employment, not handouts, for the able-bodied impecunious. Also, the center ordered that cities should subsidize just the most ill and needy. We find that only some Chinese cities—the less well-endowed and politically less prominent—responded to this shift by cutting…
The Fifth National People's Congress and the Process of Policy Making
Research Article| December 01 1982 The Fifth National People's Congress and the Process of Policy Making: Reform, Readjustment, and the Opposition Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1953) 22 (12): 1238–1275. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644049 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
Social Assistance Under Capitalist Authoritarian Rule
This study uses a micro set of Chinese city-level data to understand the varying choices taken by municipal officials in their distribution of a minimum livelihood scheme. It explores the variation in the apportionment of allowances offered to disparate types of poor groups in poor versus wealthy cities. The paper argues that in China, where profits, modernisation, competition and globalisation have become significant to leaders at all levels, th…
The New Urban Underclass and its Consciousness
This paper investigates whether the 22 million or so urban recipients of the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (the zuidi shenghuo baozhang), whose per capita family income falls below a locally set poverty line, can be called a ‘class’. It also explores if they experience ‘class consciousness’. It draws on theoretical writings on class and class consciousness, and on some seven dozen unstructured interviews in households of urban dibao recipients in …
Labor Discontent in China in Comparative Perspective
A prominent specialist on the political economy of China compares the responses of Chinese workers to globalization-induced job cuts and benefit reductions with those of workers in two quite different political contexts—France and Mexico. A hypothesis, based on the "terms of attachment" among states, workers, and their unions, is advanced to account for the quite different responses of labor (in terms of propensity to protest) to similar global e…
Globalization and the Paradox of Participation
n important current in the study of globalization1 and its impacts holds that the global spread of economic liberalism and the con ?. \. cept of human rights have eventuated in new notions of citizen ship. In one view, what has been termed a postnational citizenship, granted the basis of personhood, has increasingly offered immi grants the rights and privileges once granted only to nationals. Whether the mechanism at work is ideational, as by cha…
State versus Merchant
There is an uncanny similarity between regulations on merchant activity in various medieval Western European countries, on the one hand, and, on the other, those in the People's Republic of China (PRC) just after its institution (see Appendix). My discovery of this resemblance informed the research on which this paper is based and directed my attention to some crucial relationships in the interaction between commerce and state at a certain level …
China's New Economic Policies and the Local Industrial Political Process
A well publicized program of economic reform has been underway in the People's Republic of China since 1979, involving, in schematic terms, decentralization of powers and the purse on a vertical dimension and redistribution of investment among sectors and regions on a horizontal one. In short, there have been some fairly significant alterations in the rights and moneys allocated to--and drifting into--the hands of lower-level officials and manage…
Minority Nationalities in China's Yunnan Province
The varying experiences of different minority groups in China's Yunnan province are analyzed in light of the power resources that each possesses. The size, location, and impregnability of the group account for whether or not it can exert leverage on the regime in attempting to obtain cultural, political, and economic benefits. The author found that a group's assimilability, or its propensity to change its cultural traits, is negatively correlated…
Regional Government and Political Integration in Southwest China, 1949-1954
The Shadowy Second Stage of China's Ten-Year Plan
I N A SPECULATIVE research note written in the fall of I977, not long after the first public announcement of the existence of a regional plan in China, I sketched out the economic and political context in which this plan was born and the administrative arrangements with which it was linked.1 The present article is concerned with some of the tactics being employed by the Chinese leadership to implement this regional plan, and tries to assess its p…
State versus Merchant
There is an uncanny similarity between regulations on merchant activity in various medieval Western European countries, on the one hand, and, on the other, those in the People's Republic of China (PRC) just after its institution (see Appendix). My discovery of this resemblance informed the research on which this paper is based and directed my attention to some crucial relationships in the interaction between commerce and state at a certain level …
Socialist Goals and Capitalist Tendencies in Chinese Commerce, 1949-1952
A recent article on socialism in China has claimed that, there was little that was specifically socialist in the policies pursued by the Communists in the early years of the PRC (Meisner, 1977: 1019). Along this same line, the conventional wisdom has dictated that the period 1949-1952 was a time when the goal of economic recovery dominated the policies and priorities of the political elite; and that accommodation with the private sector, tantamou…
Economic Reform Via Reformulation in China
Research Article| September 01 1981 Economic Reform Via Reformulation in China: Where do Rightist Ideas come from? Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1952) 21 (9): 947–960. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643824 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools G…
Politics in Yunnan Province in the Decade of Disorder
In the wake of the watershed events of 1967, most of the analysis of Chinese domestic politics has focused on the fallen “four,” subsequent purges of Leftists and their replacement by “pragmatists,” and the no longer guarded “reassessment” of the old Chairman's role in the Chinese revolution. This discussion has usually been directed at the personnel in the capital. This article will take a look at what has been happening in one part of the hinte…
The Fifth National People's Congress and the Process of Policy Making
Research Article| December 01 1982 The Fifth National People's Congress and the Process of Policy Making: Reform, Readjustment, and the Opposition Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1953) 22 (12): 1238–1275. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644049 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
Commercial Reform and State Control
CLEARLY A CRUCIAL COMPONENT of the current economic reforms in the People's Republic of China is the one concerning commerce. Since late 1978, the majority of the top leadership has agreed that rigidities in China's socialist commercial bureaucracy have worked over time to subvert certain central socialist goals. That is, too much state control has denied the population the higher living standards that the revolution promised, while impoverished …
Chinese Business Under Socialism. The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980
China’s Economy
Research Article| September 01 1986 China’s Economy: Reform and State Control Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine Dorothy J. Solinger teaches political science in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Chinese Business under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980 (Berkeley: University of California P…
China's New Economic Policies and the Local Industrial Political Process
A well publicized program of economic reform has been underway in the People's Republic of China since 1979, involving, in schematic terms, decentralization of powers and the purse on a vertical dimension and redistribution of investment among sectors and regions on a horizontal one. In short, there have been some fairly significant alterations in the rights and moneys allocated to--and drifting into--the hands of lower-level officials and manage…
Chinese business under socialism
China's Transients and the State
Riding the Tiger
"China's Urban Transients in the Transition from Socialism and the Collapse of the Communist "Urban Public Goods Regime
Depuis quelques annees, de nombreux paysans chinois gagnent les villes. Cette exode rural constitue une menace pour les controles sociaux et economiques dans l'Etat socialiste. Si les menaces de poussee du marche, de contestations et de corruptions sont gerees, a long terme le regime des biens publics urbains risque de disparaitre : surveiller le Plan, planifier et administrer le regime de biens publics urbains sur la base de la population perman…
The Chinese Work Unit and Transient Labor in the Transition from Socialism
With the coming of economic reform in China, migrant peasant labor has entered industry in large numbers. Unlike such workers in the past-who served as temporaries from the communes contracted to produce in urban state firms, or who remained in the rural areas, toiling for their units in small industries (see Walder, 1986: 48-56)-this section of today's floating population' is working full-time, and in large numbers, as wage-compensated, individu…
Dilemmas of Reform in China
This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989. It is designed for scholars and graduate students interested in the political economy of China's reforms
State Power and Social Forces
States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy
Globalization and the role of the state are issues at the forefront of contemporary debates. With editors and contributors of outstanding academic repututation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective. Revealing that states do still matter despite the vigour of international capital flows and the omnipresence of the global market, the chapters in this collection controversially highlight that how states matter Dep…
Contesting Citizenship in Urban China
Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. S…
States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy
Rural China Takes off
Citizenship Issues in China's Internal Migration
Journal Article Citizenship Issues in China's Internal Migration: Comparisons with Germany and Japan Get access Dorothy J. Solinger Dorothy J. Solinger DOROTHY J. SOLINGER is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. She has just published Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market…
Transition from Communism in China
This volume deepens analysis of China's transition from communism and places the Chinese case in comparative and theoretical perspective. It stresses differences between institutional sectors, and between different kinds of institutional analysis
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