Knowing China

A Twenty-First Century Guide

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19904510
AutoresFrank N Pieke (0000-0001-9991-0634, Leiden University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Data de publicação2016-07-15
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoKnowing China (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316452097
OpenAlexW4250123710
Open LibraryOL27215908M
ISBN9781316452097
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, desires, or fears. Each chapter starts with a key question about China, showing that such questions and assumptions are often based on a misunderstanding or misconstruction of what China is today. Pieke explores twenty-first-century China as a unique kind of neo-socialist society, combining features of state socialism, neoliberal governance, capitalism and rapid globalization. Understanding this society not only helps us to know China better, but takes us beyond the old dichotomies of West versus East, developed versus developing, tradition versus modernity, democracy versus dictatorship, and capitalism versus socialism

Capitalism · China · Communism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Dichotomy · Dictatorship · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Globalization · Management · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · 21st century · civilization · History