China and Globalization: The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society (Global Realities) | 
 enlarge | Author: Doug Guthrie
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2111658
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 365
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0415990408
Dewey Decimal Number: 337.51
EAN: 9780415990400
ASIN: 0415990408
Publication Date: August 20, 2008
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In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the economic genesis in this compact and highly readable introduction to contemporary China. He highlights the social, cultural and political factors fostering this revolutionary change and interweaves a broad structural analysis with a consideration of social changes at the micro and macro levels. In this new, revised edition author Guthrie updates his story on modern China and provides the latest authoritative data and examples from current events to chart where this dynamically changing society is headed and what the likely consequences for the rest of the world will be.
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Like a Textbook-- published by PRC November 9, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The author presented quite a rosy picture on China. On privatization, this book praised the successful gradual approach of the government. On institutional reform and liberalization, the market forces and foreign investors seem to be transforming China into a "rational" and democratic system.
Although the author distances himself from the neoliberals on the issue about privatization, his logic on institutional transition and modernization nevertheless make him more of a neoliberal than otherwise. This book described the policy reforms and changes of social control mechanism nicely, but not the social problems and challenges resulted from the reform.
Optimism is fine, but downplaying the uncertainties and social ills associated with globalization is not. The excessive optimism of the book make it like an English version of a Chinese official textbook.
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