Growing Pains
Challenges for a Rising China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth J Perry (0000-0002-7943-2097, Institute of Automation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5-13 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00268 |
| OpenAlex | W2028794407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
ELIZABETH J. PERRY, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2002, is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Her many books in clude Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor (1993), Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State (2005), and Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition (2012). The accumulative achievements of China’s ongoing socioeconomic reforms are by most measures little short of astounding. From one of the globe’s poorest countries at the time of Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, the People’s Republic of China (prc) has become a booming economy–second biggest in the world– thanks to a swift rise that has rescued hundreds of millions of its people from poverty and afforded the government enviable resources for further development. Yet while one may marvel at the speed and success of the so-called China miracle, neither the Chinese people nor their leaders seem at ease with the current situation. Rampant grassroots protest bespeaks intense popular indignation at everything from land grabs to environmental pollution, while top of1⁄2cials themselves rail against the corroding effects of cadre corruption and income inequality. To evaluate the challenges facing China after thirty1⁄2ve years of reform is a dif1⁄2cult task, and not only because of the apparent disconnect between objective gains and subjective gripes. For one thing, the head-spinning pace of change threatens to render any academic assessment quickly obsolete. For another, the prc’s post-Mao record of achievement is in fact decidedly uneven across geographic re gions, social strata, and policy sectors. While major cities boast gleaming new infrastructure and attendant urban amenities that equal or surpass those of the advanced industrial world, much of the rural interior remains mired in grinding poverty. The af fluence of new urban middle and upper classes, flush
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |