China’s Four Modernizations
Blueprint for Development or Prelude to Turmoil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11069031 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Mason (0000-0002-1382-4688), Daniel S Mason (0000-0001-8456-5700, Mississippi State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 47-70 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Affairs An American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-7678 • E-ISSN: 1940-1590 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00927678.1984.10553699 |
| OpenAlex | W2327927937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Despite a series of setbacks and subsequent revisions of targets, priorities, and programmatic strategies, China's Four Modernizations program has so far retained acceptance as the foundation upon which China's current development policies are being constructed. Yet, a number of recent studies make it clear that-within the bounds of agreement on the general need to modernize-elite consensus on a number of more specific though equally critical issues remains incomplete, unstable, and subject to periodic shifts. Matters ranging from the specific policy goals to be pursued and programs to be implemented to the relative priority of the four broad dimensions themselves continue to generate considerable dissension among China's elite; indeed, there remains at least residual opposition (among the unreconstructed Maoists) to the very legitimacy of the Four Modernizations as a programmatic blueprint for China's future. In a sense, then, it may be more accurate to say that the basic themes of modernizing agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military continue to structure the game within which conflict over policy priorities, ideological legitimacy and, ultimately, political power itself is played out. However, while the nature and implications of intra-elite conflict has been explored considerably, relatively less attention has been
China · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Elite · Ideology · International peace · Legitimacy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law
On Chinese Pragmatism in the 1980s
The Great Leap Offshore
Tiananmen Square Thirteen Years After
Modernization and Its Discontents Revisited
An analysis of the Chinese national examination
Science and technology policy in China
Science, technology and China's four modernizations
Foreign Policy and Area Studies Entangled
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2026 (46) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |