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, by CHENG Eva
Last November, Hu Deping, the deputy chief of the united front department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) central committee, called for a halt to the popular campaign that seeks to force mainland China’s new class of capitalists, most of whom acquired their initial wealth from embezzling (…)
, by BELLO Walden, WEN Dale
Dale Wen’s short book “China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review”, published by the International Forum on Globalization, is probably the best comprehensive introduction to the environmental and social impacts of China’s breakneck industrialization available in English Based on both Chinese (…)
, by CHENG Eva
On November 6, quoting the Ministry of Public Security, the official Xinhua News Agency proudly announced there were only 17,900 “mass incidents” — Beijing’s term for mass protests — in the first nine months of 2006. Xinhua said it represented a drop of 22% from the same period last year. (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
This is an abridged version of a much longer article on the subject which is now published on ESSF: China: Globalization challenge, Nationalist response.
Following the heated debate on ‘the rise of China’, we are also witnessing a rise of Chinese Nationalism. While old Chinese Nationalism (…)
, by CHENG Eva, GONG Xiantian
Introduction
By Eva Cheng
Beginning in late 1978, the Communist Party of China’s “reform and door opening” program has purportedly sought to strengthen China’s socialist course by introducing market mechanisms to speed the development of the productive forces. However, by the 1990s, (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
This is the longuer version of this article. [1] A much shorter version of it, posted online earlier, can also be found on ESSF website Chinese Nationalism and the ‘New Left’:
The ‘Anti-Globalization Movement’ captured world attention again from 11 to 18 December 2005, when Korean farmers (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Beginning in late 1978, the Communist Party of China’s “reform and door opening” program has purportedly sought to strengthen China’s socialist course by introducing market mechanisms to speed the development of the productive forces. However, by the 1990s, especially in the second half, when (…)
, by CHENG Eva
The gap between the rich and poor in China, which started to widen when Beijing embarked on the pro-market reforms in the late 1970s, has now widened to an unprecedented level. According to a recent study by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the richest 10% of the country’s (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Rosa Luxemburg has the well-deserved reputation as being one of the most radical defenders of democracy and one of the most uncompromising critics of the market economy in the labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Peoples Republic of China has the reputation as having (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
This is the second part of a study. To call the first part, click on this llink: The Post MFA era and the rise of China
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THE HUGE GROWTH of China’s manufacturing in the last 20 years cannot be attributed to China’s embrace of the world market alone, as neoliberal academics want us (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the ATC signalled the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector. However, phasing in free trade here has proved to be far (…)
, by HUSSON Michel
China is not only an immense tee-shirt factory. It is also a society that is rapidly changing, comprises a fifth of the planet’s population and is bursting onto the scene of the word economy.
China does not fall into the classical categories, since it is a country governed by a Communist (…)
, by HAN Dongfang
A railway worker caught up in the events of Tiananmen Square, now using his radio show to broadcast the problems of Chinese factory hands live on air. Han Dongfang describes life in the Red Army, student-worker unity in 1989, surviving TB and torture in prison and the China Labour Bulletin’s (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Grenzeloos. What do you think of predictions that in a few decades China will be a superpower challenging the US on a global scale?
Gilbert Achcar. These predictions are usually based on projections of the current Chinese rates of growth, whereas it is far from certain that China will be able (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Just as China completed its top leadership transition during the 10-day annual parliamentary session which ended on March 14, it upped the ante with Taiwan, seeking to intimidate any future efforts by the island to seek formal independence from China.
An anti-secession law that authorises the (…)
, by CHENG Eva, Collective / Multiple signers
Introduction to the document
Increasing domestic criticism of Beijing’s procapitalist course
by Eva Cheng Over the past decade, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been escalating its pro-capitalist agenda, a pro-capitalist current among China’s economists—known as the neoliberals—has (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
Political Situation
In the decade following the 1989 uprising of the democratic movement and its subsequent repression, the Chinese government - led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - has remained stable. Many commentators agree that it will remain so for the foreseeable future, and that (…)
, by BUSTER Gustavo
The 20th People’s National Assembly met in Beijing in March 2003 to approve changes in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the executive bodies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which had been decided on four months earlier by the nomenclature of the party at its 16th (…)
, by LEW Roland
The 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took place in mid- November. It has become a routine and well-controlled event, held at a fixed date (every five years), which was far from the case in the past (Congresses were held in 1928, 1945, 1956 and then 1969, subsequently becoming (…)
, by QIN Hui
Where is the PRC heading? One of its leading intellectual iconoclasts, after describing his origins in the Cultural Revolution, offers a long-range comparative perspective on the Chinese state’s strategy for land and industry today. The divisions in the intelligentsia and the fate of the (…)
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