Economic transition and political legitimacy in post-Mao China : ideology and reform
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Economic transition and political legitimacy in post-Mao China : ideology and reform
State University of New York Press, c1995
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Bibliography: p. 223-240
Includes index
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Description
Tracing the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, this book explores the conversion of China's policymakers to capitalist economic thinking. Chen argues that the reform process has created a gap between the legitimacy of the leadership, which remains rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the practice of reform, which has abandoned such ideological constraints. Through a systematic survey of party documents and resolutions, official publications, leaders' speeches, academic journals, and newspapers, Chen shows how Chinese policymakers reconceptualized the ownership system and adjusted related policies. Focusing on a number of economic policy issue areas such as state economy, rural reform, privatization, and income distribution, he analyzes in depth the implications of this gap for the current Chinese leadership and the future of China's political development.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Role of Ideas/Ideology
Ideology versus Economic Development: The Goal Conflict
Alternative Explanations
Analytical Framework
The Fundamental Principles versus Instrumental Principles
The Fundamental-Instrumental Discrepancy and the Legitimacy Crisis
The Organization of This Book
Chapter 2. The Ownership System before the Reform: Its Rationale
The Dominance of Public Ownership: Its Rationale
The Ownership System in Pre-Reform China
Chapter 3. Theoretical Adjustments: The "Practice Criterion" and the "Criterion of Productive Forces"
Remodeling Mao Zedong Thought: Hua Guofeng's Failure
The Debate on the Criterion for Truth
The Practice Criterion and the Guiding Role of Marxism
The Practice Criterion versus the Political Criterion
The Primacy of Practice: Significance and Limitations
Revolution versus Production
The Criterion of Productive Forces
The Revival of Historical Materialism
The Criterion of Productive Forces and the Preliminary Stage of Socialism
The Criterion of Productive Forces and Capitalistic Practices
The Criterion of Productive Forces: Its Significance and Implications
Chapter 4. Agricultural Decollectivization
The Agricultural Ownership System: Performance and Problems
The Emergence of the Contract System and Ideological Controversy
Redefining the Contract System: Expedient Measures versus Alternatiave Organization
The Legitimization of the Individual Household Contract
The Long-Term Contract: Its Implications
The IHC and the Land System: The Search for New Alternatives
Predicament and Limitations: An Uncertain Future
Chapter 5. Reforming State Ownership
Problems of China's State Ownership before the Reform
State Ownership as an Issue of Management
State Ownership as an Issue of State-Enterprise Financial Relationships
State Ownership as an Issue of Separation of Ownership and Control
State Ownership: The Property Rights Problem
The Shareholding System
Chapter 6. Justifying the Private Economy
The Urban Individual Economy: An Initial Step toward Privatization
The Private Economy as a Supplement to Socialist Economy
The Private Economy as an Agent of Modernization
The Private Economy as an Alternative Economic Instituttion
Reconciling the Socialist System and a Private Economy: A Problem Unsettled
Chapter 7. The Distribution Issue in the Economic Reform
Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice
Rehabilitation of "To Each According to His Work"
The New Dimensions of Distributional Inequality in Rural Areas
The "Rich First" versus Common Prosperity
The Emergence of Urban Distributional Inequality
Justifying a Market-Driven Distribution of Income
The Conflict between Ideology and Practice: What are Its Solutions?
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Marxism and Underdeveloped Socialism
The Irreconcilability of the Fundamental-Instrumental Discrepancy under Communist Systems
The Fundamental-Instrumental Discrepancy and Ideological Transformation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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