China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics

by Chun Lin

PART I 1. Positioning China in World Capitalist Development 2. Debating from 'Oriental Society' to 'Great Divergence' PART II 3. Chinese Socialism and Global Capitalism 4. The Politics of China's Self-positioning 5. Can There Be a Chinese Model? 6. Class, Direct Producers, and the Impasse of Modernization 7. The Rise of the for a Communist Moral Economy PART III 8. Toward a Historical Materialist Universalism 9. Marxism and the Interpretation of China

Genres: China

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First published February 13, 2014

Reviews

[Nathan Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once a friend of mine was abruptly tasked with moderating a panel with something of a self-enamored hot shot academic. Lobbing half-assed softball questions at one point he included the word "interstitial," which is catnip to such types. The academic swooned, nodded profusely, and said, yes, indeed, it is *so, so interstitial.* I now sometimes rely on 'so, so interstitial' as shorthand for the kind of hysterical banalities common to writing that emerges from the petty striver Thunderdome that is the university system. Anyway, all of that to say that this book is heavily laden with that style of wearying prose, so mileage may vary. But it's also informative enough about China's transition to be useful.