Zhaohui Hong
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813161150
- eISBN:
- 9780813161181
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813161150.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a ...
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Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a study of the sociocultural price of China’s economic development. It provides a comprehensive account of how much China has paid to reach its current stage of development. The first part of the book addresses the institutional price of the nation’s economic development, focusing on the emergence and development of the power-capital institution. Such an institution is a hybrid political culture that infuses political power and economic capital, evidenced in the formation of the power-capital economy, the growth of the power-capital entrepreneurs, and the emergence of the power-capital culture. The second part of the book deals with another sociocultural price of China’s economic growth, that is, the poverty of rights, as seen in the exclusion and deprivation of disadvantaged groups in the process of economic transition and development. The poverty of rights resulting from systematic inequality and injustice is the main cause for underrepresented groups’ daunting socioeconomic challenges, as evidenced in the poverty of rights among the urban poor, farmers, migrant laborers, and Protestant house church members since 1978. Finally, this book addresses the theoretical and practical linkages between the power-capital institution and rights deprivation as the dual prices of China’s economic development. While the power-capital institution has developed at the expense of common people’s rights, both phenomena have fueled China’s economic growth.Less
Taking advantage of interdisciplinary research in economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book supplies another analytical dimension of China’s development since 1978 by offering a study of the sociocultural price of China’s economic development. It provides a comprehensive account of how much China has paid to reach its current stage of development. The first part of the book addresses the institutional price of the nation’s economic development, focusing on the emergence and development of the power-capital institution. Such an institution is a hybrid political culture that infuses political power and economic capital, evidenced in the formation of the power-capital economy, the growth of the power-capital entrepreneurs, and the emergence of the power-capital culture. The second part of the book deals with another sociocultural price of China’s economic growth, that is, the poverty of rights, as seen in the exclusion and deprivation of disadvantaged groups in the process of economic transition and development. The poverty of rights resulting from systematic inequality and injustice is the main cause for underrepresented groups’ daunting socioeconomic challenges, as evidenced in the poverty of rights among the urban poor, farmers, migrant laborers, and Protestant house church members since 1978. Finally, this book addresses the theoretical and practical linkages between the power-capital institution and rights deprivation as the dual prices of China’s economic development. While the power-capital institution has developed at the expense of common people’s rights, both phenomena have fueled China’s economic growth.
Zhaohui Hong
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813161150
- eISBN:
- 9780813161181
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813161150.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
The book begins with an introduction that provides a systematic and theoretical discussion of power, capital, institutions, and the power-capital institution. Differing from conventional analytical ...
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The book begins with an introduction that provides a systematic and theoretical discussion of power, capital, institutions, and the power-capital institution. Differing from conventional analytical frameworks in China studies, such as those focused on the party-state, the state-society, crony capitalism, the totalitarian or authoritarian state, and bureaucratic capital, this chapter defines the concept of the power-capital institution. Based on theories of social deprivation, poverty of capability, and civil rights, the poverty of rights is defined as the denial to certain individuals and groups of rights to political participation, religious belief, employment, medical care, housing, promotion, socioeconomic mobility, education, resource distribution, and financial assistance. In addition, the chapter discusses the noneconomic price of economic development and addresses how any economic “miracle” may be jeopardized or even terminated by social upheaval, political volatility, and institutional breakdown. Finally, this chapter explains the organization of the book and summarizes the key themes of each chapter.Less
The book begins with an introduction that provides a systematic and theoretical discussion of power, capital, institutions, and the power-capital institution. Differing from conventional analytical frameworks in China studies, such as those focused on the party-state, the state-society, crony capitalism, the totalitarian or authoritarian state, and bureaucratic capital, this chapter defines the concept of the power-capital institution. Based on theories of social deprivation, poverty of capability, and civil rights, the poverty of rights is defined as the denial to certain individuals and groups of rights to political participation, religious belief, employment, medical care, housing, promotion, socioeconomic mobility, education, resource distribution, and financial assistance. In addition, the chapter discusses the noneconomic price of economic development and addresses how any economic “miracle” may be jeopardized or even terminated by social upheaval, political volatility, and institutional breakdown. Finally, this chapter explains the organization of the book and summarizes the key themes of each chapter.
