China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?

The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental state and as an extension of Soviet New Economic Policy-style state capitalism. This paper evaluates these portrayals thr...

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Main Authors: Horesh, Niv, Lim, Kean Fan
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Published: Taylor and Francis 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40929/
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description The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental state and as an extension of Soviet New Economic Policy-style state capitalism. This paper evaluates these portrayals through a broad historical and geographical framework. It examines the position of China as a new state after 1949. It then places the shifting logics of socioeconomic regulation in China in relation to (1) the global neoliberal hegemony since the 1980s and (2) the concomitant shifts in the economic policies of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In so doing, the paper demonstrates how the Communist Party of China creatively adapted and re-purposed regulatory logics from the Washington Consensus and East Asian policies to consolidate its own version of Leninist state-led development.
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spelling nottingham-409292020-05-04T18:25:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40929/ China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism? Horesh, Niv Lim, Kean Fan The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental state and as an extension of Soviet New Economic Policy-style state capitalism. This paper evaluates these portrayals through a broad historical and geographical framework. It examines the position of China as a new state after 1949. It then places the shifting logics of socioeconomic regulation in China in relation to (1) the global neoliberal hegemony since the 1980s and (2) the concomitant shifts in the economic policies of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In so doing, the paper demonstrates how the Communist Party of China creatively adapted and re-purposed regulatory logics from the Washington Consensus and East Asian policies to consolidate its own version of Leninist state-led development. Taylor and Francis 2016-12-20 Article PeerReviewed Horesh, Niv and Lim, Kean Fan (2016) China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism? Pacific Review, 30 (4). pp. 425-442. ISSN 1470-1332 China East Asia developmental state neoliberalism state-led development state capitalism http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2016.1264459 doi:10.1080/09512748.2016.1264459 doi:10.1080/09512748.2016.1264459
spellingShingle China
East Asia
developmental state
neoliberalism
state-led development
state capitalism
Horesh, Niv
Lim, Kean Fan
China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title_full China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title_fullStr China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title_full_unstemmed China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title_short China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?
title_sort china: an east asian alternative to neoliberalism?
topic China
East Asia
developmental state
neoliberalism
state-led development
state capitalism
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40929/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40929/