China and Global Capitalism
Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics
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Positioning China in World Capitalist Development
The question of how to view the position of China in the world in general and with respect to the development of capitalism as a world system in particular is certainly not one of a fixed place of a static ent...
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Chinese Socialism and Global Capitalism
Marx did not foresee the socialist revolutions in economically backward national settings—the Leninist initiative broke the imperialist chains to create the first Soviet regime in Russia in 1917 and, through a...
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Can There Be a Chinese Model?
Modern China’s national development defied the teleological “master course” to follow an alternative trajectory. It was essentially a collective search for, successively, a revolutionary alternative to colonia...
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The Rise of the Social: For a Communist Moral Economy
The most creative thinking emerged from China regarding the invigoration of Chinese socialism rejects conventional modernization and globalization in their prevailing forms. The new vision is “local,” local na...
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Marxism and the Interpretation of China
From a universalist perspective of historical materialism, the position of China in the world and in world history is essentially defined by its relationship with epochal parameters of capitalism. Both entitie...
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Debating History: From “Oriental Society” to “Great Divergence”
For positioning China in the modern world in terms of its relationship with capitalism as a historical materialist account, a few academically or politically influential concepts of traditional China deserve o...
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The Politics of China’s Self-Positioning
To position China in the current history of modern capitalism is to look into the relationship between the two as they converge or diverge in their macro socioeconomic and political movements. The self-positio...
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Class, Direct Producers, and the Impasse of Modernization
I have been using generic terms such as “the people” and “social,” which are at the same time candid class terms in Chinese political discourse for a threefold reason. First, their actual referents and symboli...
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Toward a Historical Materialist Universalism
In light of the review of Marx’s conception of Oriental society and the comparative economic history debate over imperial China’s place in world history in Part I and the past, present, and potential future mo...
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Challenging Privatization: A Conceptual and Theoretical Argument
This is the second of a three-part polemic against the destruction of state owned enterprises in China (the first, “Against Privatization: A Historical and Empirical Argument”, is published in JCPS 13:1, 2008). I...
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Against Privatization in China: A Historical and Empirical Argument
Reform in China’s urban public sector has been so contentious that the nature, function, validity and viability of state firms require clarifications. First of a two-part critique, this essay assesses the outc...
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Recasting Development in China
Lin Chun argues that China's rapid growth has vastly improved the living standards of the majority of Chinese people but it also carries some unbearable social and environmental consequences. This decline of p...
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Thermodynamic stability and superconductivity of the Bi–Sr–Ca(Y)–Cu–Li–O system
In order to understand the effects of the thermodynamic stability on superconductivity, the thermodynamic stability of the Bi2Sr2CaCu2-xLixOy system and the Bi2Sr2YCu2-xLixOy system was studied. It is found that ...
