Community Capitalism in China

The State, the Market, and Collectivism

AvXiaoshuo Hou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Hou proposes to end the dichotomous view of the state and the market, and capitalism and communism, by examining the local institutional innovation in three villages in China and presents community capitalism as an alternative to the neoliberal model of development. Community is both the unit of redistribution and the entity that mobilizes resources to compete in the market; collectivism creates the boundary that sets the community apart from the outside and justifies and sustains the model. Community capitalism differs from Mao-era collectivism, when individual interests were buried in the name of collective interests and market competition was not a concern. This book demonstrates the embeddedness of the market in community, showing how social relations, group solidarity, power, honor, and other values play an important role in these villages' social and economic organization.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-18
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:164
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107030466

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Xiaoshuo Hou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St Lawrence University. Her research interests include the sociology of development, economic sociology, the sociology of organizations and the socioeconomic transformations in China. She has published extensively in The Journal of Asian Studies, Theory and Society, Contemporary Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Theory, Culture and Society. Currently, she is co-editing the five-volume Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. She received her PhD from Boston University.

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'Community Capitalism in China is a welcome addition to the body of research on economic reform in China. It is a beautiful example of the ways in which grounded research can both illuminate eye-opening stories about transforming economies and also advance our theoretical understanding of the forces driving that transformation. Professor Hou also boldly steps beyond the tired state-versus-market mindset, offering a fresh view of how China's economy works.' Doug Guthrie, George Washington University School of Business

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Preface; 1. The curse revisited: the dynamics of social change in China; 2. Circle on the outside, square on the inside; 3. Socialism with Huaxi characteristics; 4. Capitalism reborn or collectivism rediscovered; 5. Back to the future: community capitalism and the search for alternatives.