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    China and Global Capitalism

    Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics

    Lin Chun (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in China and Global Capitalism (2013)

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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...

    Lin Chun in Development (2007)