The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s likely paths into the future. Lin suggests that China’s twentieth-century trajectory be grasped in terms of the collective search by its people for a modern alternative to colonial modernity, bureaucratic socialism, and capitalist subordination. Evaluating contending interpretations of the formation and transformation of Chinese socialism in the contemporary conditions of global capitalism, Lin argues that the post-Mao reform model must be remade. cover.jpg......Page 1 copy.jpg......Page 2 mulu1.jpg......Page 3 prefece1.jpg......Page 4 preface2.jpg......Page 5 preface3.jpg......Page 6 3.pdf......Page 7 328.jpg......Page 334 329.jpg......Page 335 330.jpg......Page 336 331.jpg......Page 337 332.jpg......Page 338 333.jpg......Page 339 334.jpg......Page 340 335.jpg......Page 341 336.jpg......Page 342 337.jpg......Page 343 338.jpg......Page 344 339.jpg......Page 345 340.jpg......Page 346 341.jpg......Page 347 342.jpg......Page 348 343.jpg......Page 349 344.jpg......Page 350 345.jpg......Page 351 346.jpg......Page 352 347.jpg......Page 353 348.jpg......Page 354 349.jpg......Page 355 350.jpg......Page 356 351.jpg......Page 357 352.jpg......Page 358 353.jpg......Page 359 354.jpg......Page 360 355.jpg......Page 361 356.jpg......Page 362 357.jpg......Page 363 358.jpg......Page 364 359.jpg......Page 365 360.jpg......Page 366 361.jpg......Page 367 362.jpg......Page 368 363.jpg......Page 369 364.jpg......Page 370 365.jpg......Page 371 366.jpg......Page 372 367.jpg......Page 373 368.jpg......Page 374 369.jpg......Page 375 370.jpg......Page 376 371.jpg......Page 377 In this contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analysing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country's likely paths into the future.