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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dorothy j solinger”
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  • Poverty and Pacification

    The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class

    by Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China’s single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • China's Transition from Socialism?

    Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-90

    by Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    The essays in this volume address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured centralised command system and to introduce some market principles to stimulate economic activity. The essays fall ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Three Visions Of Chinese Socialism

    by Dorothy J Solinger ...
    For many years, most scholarly and journalistic intepretation of Chinese politics has followed the practice of the media in the People's Republic, analyzing conflict among the leadership in terms of a dichotomy between two lines, R or the two-line struggle. The adherents of· this model refer to the two lines as -ideologues'" or -radicals· on the one hand, versus pragmatists- or moderates on the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Polarized Cities

    Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China

    Edited by Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    This powerful book presents a fresh and compelling set of portraits that bring to life the human dimension of the vast and growing social and economic divides in urban China. Leading scholars explore the increasing rigidity of class and social boundaries, focusing on two new “castes” in contemporary China’s cities—the immensely wealthy and the abjectly poor. Much has been made of the rise in ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged

    Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009

    Edited by Nina Bandelj, Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy

    Edited by David A. Smith, Dorothy J. Solinger, Steven C. Topik ...
    Globalization and the role of the state are issues at the forefront of contemporary debates. With editors and contributors of outstanding academic repututation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective. Revealing that states do still matter despite the vigour of international capital flows and the omnipresence of the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • State–Society Relations and Governance in China

    by John Creed, Sheng Ding, Joseph Fewsmith, Wenshan Jia, Josef Gregory Mahoney, Edwin E. Moise, Nele Noesselt, G. Venkat Raman, Lynn T. White III, Teresa Wright, David S. G. Goodman, Guoli Liu, Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    State–society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In this wide ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

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  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Martin K. Dimitrov ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, ... Read more

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  • Global Revival of Left and Socialism versus Capitalism and Globalization and China's Share

    by Pu Guoliang ...
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  • A Just Society: The World After Neoliberalism

    by David Đ. Dašić ...
    A Just Society is a study of the distribution of social wealth with a focus on justice and how it impacts the economic status of individuals, groups, and states to create a society free of exploitation. It gives an insightful critique of neoliberalism and neoliberal distribution of assets in society characterized by an extreme wealth gap. With proven methodologies, this book illustrates how the ... Read more

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  • Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism

    The Czech Republic After Communism

    by Jacqui True ...
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