Neoliberal transformation in China in the 1980s and the 1990s

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This thesis discusses one of the primary questions of the debates on China, the question of the nature of Chinese transformation. It is suggested in this thesis that to fully grasp the transformation of China, we need to contextualize it within global neoliberal transformations since the 1980s. It is also argued that even if the transformation in China has been heavily influenced by global tendencies, we still have to recognize peculiar characteristics of Chinese transformation. Thus, the thesis aims to contribute to the scholarly discussions on the nature of Chinese transformation especially by way of critically engaging with ‘Beijing Consensus’, a notion that is relatively new and opens to the scientific debates. In the thesis, a decade-based analysis of the transformation in China is provided. In this regard, this thesis identifies the period between Deng’s coming to power in 1978 and his Southern Tour in 1992 as the period of ‘launching of the reforms’. It is argued that the reforms introduced in the 1980s are of vital importance in terms of abandoning the legacies of Maoist period and the construction of the institutions of a capitalist market economy in China. On the other hand, the 1990s period that ends with the change of leadership from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao in 2002 is characterized as the period of ‘consolidation of the reforms’. It is assumed that the reform drive in the 1990s has a pivotal role for the consolidation of the current configuration of state, labour, capital relations in China.
Neoliberalism, China, China, China
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614767/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21896
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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S. Altun, “Neoliberal transformation in China in the 1980s and the 1990s,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.
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