Special Economic Zones
The Chinese Road to Socialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C-F Lai (Urban and Regional Studies Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d030063 |
| OpenAlex | W2117062922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
The death of Mao Zedong signifies a change of policies in China. The balanced growth of city and countryside which occurred in the Maoist era is now replaced by a relative emphasis on an elitist urban-based development strategy which manifested itself in the establishment of the four Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in 1980. Although the utilisation of foreign capital and the import of capitalist management skills are justified by means of Lenin's theory of state capitalism, it shows that problems such as the flourishing economic crime, the creation of housing classes, and the undermining of socialist relations of production have already emerged in Shenzhen SEZ after a few years of development. In this paper it is argued that the urban-based development strategy adopted by the new leadership should not be seen as a complete break with the Maoist strategy, as suggested by the employment of the dualistic approach-the radical line versus the revisionist line-in analysing Chinese development. In fact, the establishment of the SEZs and other commensurate measures do not necessarily indicate the Chinese road to capitalism or the complete victory of Deng Xiaoping and his followers, but they reveal that their ideas and policies continue to be counteracted and modified by the legacy of the Maoist vision
Capital (architecture · Capitalism · China · Communism · Economic system · Economics · Flourishing · Geography · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Special economic zone · State (computer science · Victory · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Law
Urban inequalities under state socialism
China
Spatial aspects of Chinese development
Enterprise Zones
Chinese experiments in urban space
Politics in Command
Free Trade Zones in Southeast Asia
Sociology and development
Overurbanization, Rustication of Urban-Educated Youths, and Politics of Rural Transformation
Urban Politics
The city in the transition to socialism
Emerging urban policies in a slow-growth economy
The role of small cities in Chinese urban development
Politics and Social Status in China
The Fading of the Maoist Vision. City and Country in China's Development
The Concept of Housing Class and the Sociology of Race Relations
Marxist analyses and capitalist development in the third world
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |