Capitalism without Democracy : : The Private Sector in Contemporary China / / Kellee S. Tsai.
Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of p...
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Tsai, Kellee S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Capitalism without Democracy : The Private Sector in Contemporary China / Kellee S. Tsai. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (288 p.) : 33 tables, 13 halftones, 1 map, 4 line figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Conversion of Key Measures and Romanization -- Map of China -- 1. The Myth of China's Democratic Capitalists -- 2. Bypassing Democracy: Regime Durability, Informal Institutions, and Political Change -- 3. The Unofficial and Official Revival of China's Private Sector -- 4. Private Entrepreneurs' Identities, Interests, and Values -- 5. Diversity in Private Entrepreneurs' Coping Strategies -- 6. Local Variation in Private Sector Conditions -- 7. Changing China: Adaptive Informal Institutions -- Appendix A. Research Methodology -- Appendix B. List of Interviews, 2001-2005 -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of political observers and global business leaders, the triumph of capitalism has not led to substantial democratic reforms.In Capitalism without Democracy, Kellee S. Tsai focuses on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth. The famous images from 1989 of China's new capitalists supporting the students in Tiananmen Square are, Tsai finds, outdated and misleading. Chinese entrepreneurs are not agitating for democracy. Most are working eighteen-hour days to stay in business, while others are saving for their one child's education or planning to leave the country. Many are Communist Party members. "Remarkably," Tsai writes, "most entrepreneurs feel that the system generally works for them."Tsai regards the "idian activities of Chinese entrepreneurs as subtler and possibly more effective than voting, lobbying, and protesting in the streets. Indeed, major reforms in China's formal institutions have enhanced the private sector's legitimacy and security in the absence of mobilization by business owners. In discreet collaboration with local officials, entrepreneurs have created a range of adaptive informal institutions, which in turn, have fundamentally altered China's political and regulatory landscape. Based on years of research, hundreds of field interviews, and a sweeping nationwide survey of private entrepreneurs funded by the National Science Foundation, Capitalism without Democracy explodes the conventional wisdom about the relationship between economic liberalism and political freedom. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Businessmen Political activity China. Entrepreneurship Political aspects China. Free enterprise China. Informal sector (Economics) China. Asian Studies. Political Science & Political History. Sociology & Social Science. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. bisacsh entrepreneurs in china, private business in china, national china foundation, china's economic growth. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801445132 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461897 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801461897 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801461897/original |
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