Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

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China’s notable successes as well as the problem it has encountered, have resulted from policy debates and choices made by the Communist party of China from the time of Mao-Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, to the less charismatic leaders Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao is to put the policy perspectives in fresh theroetical terms. These essays scrutinise the Ideological statements to help understand China’s reform strategy and the policy shifts.

One needs to know the contours of Maoism and its critical assessment by Deng Xiaoping to understand the reforms that be launched and the meaning of ‘socialist market economy’ and the state-guided market process that has produced the high rate of growth in China.

Deng’s successor Jiang Zemin led China’s accelerated growth with greater integration with the world economy and articulated his thinking as the Three Represents".

After him, Hu Jintao’s decade of leadership, called by some as ‘a glorious decade’ by others ‘a lost decade’ took China to become world’s second largest economy. How successful was he in addressing rising inequality and environmental degradation while practicing his ‘scientidic outlook on development’? XI Jinping after taking over in 2012 has given a string call for realising the "Chinese dream" and has intiated cautions measures on crucial issues.

This work presents a critical examination of all these formulations and discusses whether China can still be called a socialist country. this book will be of interest to students and researches of political Science, Sociology, Development Studies, Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Studies and the general reader interested in knowing about the rise of modern China.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manoranjan Mohanty

Manoranjan Mohanty is Co-Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.  He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Human Development, New Delhi.  Formerly Professor of Political Science and Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, his research interests are Chinese politics and comparative development studies.  He has also been active in the peace and democratic rights movement.  His most recent publications are Class, Caste, Gender (edited, 204), Contemporary Indian Political Theory (2000) and People’s Rights (Co-edited with Partha Nath Mukherji, 1998).

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Title
Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789350022658
Length
xx+208p., 23cm.
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