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Market reform and civil society
Howell, Jude Bingyao, Sun Ying, Wang White, Gordan
Howell, Jude
Bingyao, Sun
Ying, Wang
White, Gordan
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"“Civil society”, “the market” and “democracy” are the positive conceptual images that dominate current thinking about China’s present and future in the social, economic and political realms respectively. They are three components of an overall conception of societal change wherein the spread of markets creates the social space for the emergence of civil society which in turn provides the social underpinnings of democratization. As such, they provide a useful framework for analysing the dynamics of socialist and post-socialist societies undergoing radical market reforms. Though each of these ideas is often used in imprecise and ideological ways, they have considerable analytical and practical power; they reflect real processes and point toward real solutions. This paper focuses on the notion of “civil society” and seeks to examine how useful it is in describing and explaining social change in contemporary Chinese society in the era of the post-Mao economic reforms which began in 1979. We shall proceed, first, by clarifying the specific way in which we intend to use the term “civil society” and, second, by investigating the empirical utility of the idea through a case-study of one small city in the central-east region of China."(pg 1)
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1994-04
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