Zhaohui Hong
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813161150
- eISBN:
- 9780813161181
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813161150.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a ...
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Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a study of the sociocultural price of China’s economic development. It provides a comprehensive account of how much China has paid to reach its current stage of development. The first part of the book addresses the institutional price of the nation’s economic development, focusing on the emergence and development of the power-capital institution. Such an institution is a hybrid political culture that infuses political power and economic capital, evidenced in the formation of the power-capital economy, the growth of the power-capital entrepreneurs, and the emergence of the power-capital culture. The second part of the book deals with another sociocultural price of China’s economic growth, that is, the poverty of rights, as seen in the exclusion and deprivation of disadvantaged groups in the process of economic transition and development. The poverty of rights resulting from systematic inequality and injustice is the main cause for underrepresented groups’ daunting socioeconomic challenges, as evidenced in the poverty of rights among the urban poor, farmers, migrant laborers, and Protestant house church members since 1978. Finally, this book addresses the theoretical and practical linkages between the power-capital institution and rights deprivation as the dual prices of China’s economic development. While the power-capital institution has developed at the expense of common people’s rights, both phenomena have fueled China’s economic growth.Less
Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a study of the sociocultural price of China’s economic development. It provides a comprehensive account of how much China has paid to reach its current stage of development. The first part of the book addresses the institutional price of the nation’s economic development, focusing on the emergence and development of the power-capital institution. Such an institution is a hybrid political culture that infuses political power and economic capital, evidenced in the formation of the power-capital economy, the growth of the power-capital entrepreneurs, and the emergence of the power-capital culture. The second part of the book deals with another sociocultural price of China’s economic growth, that is, the poverty of rights, as seen in the exclusion and deprivation of disadvantaged groups in the process of economic transition and development. The poverty of rights resulting from systematic inequality and injustice is the main cause for underrepresented groups’ daunting socioeconomic challenges, as evidenced in the poverty of rights among the urban poor, farmers, migrant laborers, and Protestant house church members since 1978. Finally, this book addresses the theoretical and practical linkages between the power-capital institution and rights deprivation as the dual prices of China’s economic development. While the power-capital institution has developed at the expense of common people’s rights, both phenomena have fueled China’s economic growth.
