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China's Crony Capitalism : The Dynamics of Regime Decay

by Minxin Pei
RM91.50 MYR
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Title: China's Crony Capitalism

This book provides a critical analysis of China's economic reform and the consequences of incomplete reforms, shedding light on the pervasive corruption and the power dynamic among government officials, businessmen, and organized crime members. It offers compelling evidence of the illegitimate accumulation of wealth by the well-connected elites and the absence of democracy in China's one-party system. This book is recommended for readers seeking a deep understanding of China's contemporary issues beyond its rapid economic growth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

China's Crony Capitalism : The Dynamics of Regime Decay

by Minxin Pei
RM91.50 MYR
ISBN: 9780674737297
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM206.49 MYR
Authors: Minxin Pei
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date of Publication: 2016-10-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Politics, Business, History
Related Topics: Political Science, History, Politics
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 127 readers)

Description

When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later, China’s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people’s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China’s Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China’s present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership.Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property―in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organized crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly.Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.
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Title: China's Crony Capitalism

This book provides a critical analysis of China's economic reform and the consequences of incomplete reforms, shedding light on the pervasive corruption and the power dynamic among government officials, businessmen, and organized crime members. It offers compelling evidence of the illegitimate accumulation of wealth by the well-connected elites and the absence of democracy in China's one-party system. This book is recommended for readers seeking a deep understanding of China's contemporary issues beyond its rapid economic growth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.