Economic Transition and Political Legitimacy in Post-Mao China: Ideology and ReformTracing 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Role of IdeasIdeology | 2 |
The Goal Conflict | 4 |
Alternative Explanations | 6 |
Analytical Framework | 9 |
Fundamental Principles versus Instrumental Principles | 13 |
The FundamentalInstrumental Discrepancy and the Legitimacy Crisis | 17 |
The Organization of This Book | 21 |
An Uncertain Future | 94 |
Reforming State Ownership | 97 |
Problems of Chinas State Ownership before the Reform | 98 |
State Ownership as an Issue of Management | 99 |
State Ownership as an Issue of StateEnterprise Financial Relationships | 102 |
State Ownership as an Issue of Separation of Ownership and Control | 104 |
The Property Rights Problem | 113 |
The Shareholding System | 118 |
The Ownership System before the Reform Its Rationale | 23 |
The Ownership System in PreReform China | 25 |
Theoretical Adjustments The Practice Criterion and the Criterion of Productive Forces | 35 |
Hua Guofengs Failure | 36 |
The Debate on the Criterion for Truth | 40 |
The Practice Criterion and the Guiding Role of Marxism | 42 |
The Practice Criterion versus The Political Criterion | 45 |
Significance and Limitations | 47 |
Revolution versus Production | 53 |
The Criterion of Productive Forces | 54 |
The Revival of Historical Materialism | 56 |
The Criterion of Productive Forces and the Preliminary Stage of Socialism | 58 |
The Criterion of Productive Forces and Capitalist Practices | 60 |
Its Significance and Implications | 62 |
Agricultural Decollectivization | 65 |
Performance and Problems | 66 |
The Emergence of the Contract System and Ideological Controversy | 67 |
Expedient Measure versus Alternative Organization | 73 |
The Legitimation of the Individual Household Contract | 77 |
Its Implications | 82 |
Search for New Alternatives | 84 |
Justifying the Private Economy | 127 |
An Initial Step toward Privatization | 128 |
The Private Economy as a Supplement to Socialist Economy | 131 |
The Private Economy as an Agent of Modernization | 140 |
The Private Economy as an Alternative Economic Institution | 147 |
A Problem Unsettled | 155 |
The Distribution Issue in the Economic Reform | 161 |
Rehabilitation of To Each According to His Work | 165 |
The New Dimensions of Distributional Inequality in the Rural Areas | 168 |
The Rich First versus Common Prosperity | 172 |
The Emergence of Urban Distributional Inequality | 177 |
Justifying a MarketDriven Distribution of Income | 183 |
What are Its Solutions? | 190 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Marxism and Underdeveloped Socialism | 198 |
The Irreconcilability of the FundamentalInstrumental Discrepancy under Communist Systems | 199 |
The FundamentalInstrumental Discrepancy and Ideological Transformation | 201 |
NOTES | 211 |
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The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights Gary Brent Madison No preview available - 1998 |