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Capitalism in China? Comparative Perspectives

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China is often seen as a socialist country that entered the market reform trajectory early. Whether this perception is correct depends on what we mean by reform and how we evaluate how far away China has moved from the classical system of socialism.

[There are two distinct kinds of intellectual resource for imagining alternative modernities]. On the one hand, there will be the historical reservoir of thoughts, experiences and struggles connected to the past of the country concerned, its cultural heritage, if you like. On the other hand, there will be a range of foreign experiences that can be studied, imported or learned from, in any given period. … Successful attempts at building an “alternative modernity” have nearly always rested on a creative balance between these two sets of resources—that is selective appropriation of the national past and selective learning from the external inter-state system.

Perry Anderson (2005, p. 16)

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Szelényi, I. (2010). Capitalism in China? Comparative Perspectives. In: Chu, Yw. (eds) Chinese Capitalisms. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230251359_9

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