Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2217663
K. Tsokhas
Abstract In Weapons of the Rich, Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (2020) have applied sociological theory and utilised primary research to argue that Chinese private entrepreneurs have been expanding their influence and becoming a powerful compeer of the Communist Party in what is a regime coalition. This review article draws on the findings of what is the most innovative and comprehensive study to date on the class of Chinese private entrepreneurs to reconsider the relevance of historical materialist concepts to the allotment of power in China around the interrelations between corporate structure, state intervention, and class formation. Stress is placed on the centrality of concentrated, capital-intensive corporations in the private and state sectors as a form of monopoly finance capital within a class conscious strategic group that joins with the party-state into a ruling class.
摘要在《富人的武器》（Weapons of the Rich）一书中，Thomas Heberer和Gunter Schubert（2020）应用了社会学理论，并利用初步研究认为，中国私营企业家一直在扩大他们的影响力，并在政权联盟中成为共产党的有力竞争者。这篇综述文章借鉴了迄今为止对中国私营企业家阶层最具创新性和最全面的研究结果，围绕公司结构、国家干预和阶级形成之间的相互关系，重新考虑历史唯物主义概念与中国权力分配的相关性。强调集中的、资本密集型公司在私营和国有部门的中心地位，作为一种具有阶级意识的战略集团中的垄断金融资本形式，该集团与党国一起成为统治阶级。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2205863
Ahmet Bekmen
{"title":"The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey","authors":"Ahmet Bekmen","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2205863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2205863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45678496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2205856
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
{"title":"Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India.","authors":"Kenneth Bo Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2205856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2205856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48486766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2201825
Elias Jabbour, Alexis Dantas, C. Espíndola, Júlio Vellozo
Abstract The purpose of this article is to shed light on the reasons why Brazilian economist Ignacio Rangel's concept of “Projectment Economy” holds great possibilities for research into China’s economic development. The article reworks the concept, offering new means of determination and validation criteria to understand Chinese socialism. Issues addressed include surmounting “Keynesian uncertainty,” “creative destruction” planning, monetary sovereignty, and the “tacit adhesion pact.” These are taken up as categories offering empirical support for the New Projectment Economy concept. The article concludes that the New Projectment Economy is a higher stage of development of the mode of production dominant in the new socio-economic formation that has emerged in China as a result of the economic reforms begun in 1978.
{"title":"The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy","authors":"Elias Jabbour, Alexis Dantas, C. Espíndola, Júlio Vellozo","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2201825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2201825","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this article is to shed light on the reasons why Brazilian economist Ignacio Rangel's concept of “Projectment Economy” holds great possibilities for research into China’s economic development. The article reworks the concept, offering new means of determination and validation criteria to understand Chinese socialism. Issues addressed include surmounting “Keynesian uncertainty,” “creative destruction” planning, monetary sovereignty, and the “tacit adhesion pact.” These are taken up as categories offering empirical support for the New Projectment Economy concept. The article concludes that the New Projectment Economy is a higher stage of development of the mode of production dominant in the new socio-economic formation that has emerged in China as a result of the economic reforms begun in 1978.","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":"53 1","pages":"767 - 788"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48485010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2199760
W. Bello
Abstract Two unconnected crises in the 1970s, a crisis of profitability of global capitalism and a deep crisis of political legitimacy in China, led to creation of a formidable alliance between corporate/financial-led US capital and the Chinese state that sought to resolve both crises by opening China for corporate exploitation. The solution, however, masked different objectives. Transnational corporations moved to China in search of cheap labour to counter falling profits and Beijing sought to use foreign capital to develop the Chinese economy and gain access to technology. Over time China’s interests and those of the USA diverged, as US deindustrialisation became the obverse of China’s dynamic industrialisation. Factions within the US elite began to promote a different approach towards China than that of alliance and accommodation and were able to grab the upper hand during Donald Trump’s presidency, advocating an aggressive approach towards China. This posture consolidated under the Biden administration. These developments set up a struggle for hegemony to which China and the USA bring differing advantages and disadvantages. While a hegemonic transition is one possible outcome of this conflict, the possibility of a hegemonic stalemate or hegemonic vacuum cannot be discounted.
{"title":"From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century","authors":"W. Bello","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2199760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2199760","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two unconnected crises in the 1970s, a crisis of profitability of global capitalism and a deep crisis of political legitimacy in China, led to creation of a formidable alliance between corporate/financial-led US capital and the Chinese state that sought to resolve both crises by opening China for corporate exploitation. The solution, however, masked different objectives. Transnational corporations moved to China in search of cheap labour to counter falling profits and Beijing sought to use foreign capital to develop the Chinese economy and gain access to technology. Over time China’s interests and those of the USA diverged, as US deindustrialisation became the obverse of China’s dynamic industrialisation. Factions within the US elite began to promote a different approach towards China than that of alliance and accommodation and were able to grab the upper hand during Donald Trump’s presidency, advocating an aggressive approach towards China. This posture consolidated under the Biden administration. These developments set up a struggle for hegemony to which China and the USA bring differing advantages and disadvantages. While a hegemonic transition is one possible outcome of this conflict, the possibility of a hegemonic stalemate or hegemonic vacuum cannot be discounted.","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":"53 1","pages":"828 - 851"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48517746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2193820
T. Tsuda
{"title":"High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago","authors":"T. Tsuda","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2193820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2193820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44619575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2193968
Fajar Sidik, M. Habibi
{"title":"A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia","authors":"Fajar Sidik, M. Habibi","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2193968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2193968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45206861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2194322
Y. Zhai
Abstract From the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in late 2019 until December 2022, China implemented stringent infection prevention and control measures known as the Zero-COVID policy. Western observers and some Chinese intellectuals have questioned this rigid policy, but few studies offer a comprehensive overview of the political reasonings behind it. This article positions the Zero-COVID policy in a broader historical context of the Chinese Communist Party’s regime maintenance, revolutionary legacies, and political mobilisation. It analyses the political reasonings behind this policy from three dimensions: system, actors, and approach, and provides accounts of the politics of the pandemic. The results reveal that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party was caught in a dilemma. The Zero-COVID policy is used to bolster legitimacy of the regime; however, it also set traps in which the Chinese government risked losing the public’s trust. The negative outcomes of the policy were underestimated by the Chinese leadership, which believed in its ability to balance the cost and benefit of this policy for the sake of maintenance of its rule. The politics of COVID-19 mirrors China’s authoritarian politics in general.
{"title":"The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy","authors":"Y. Zhai","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2194322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2194322","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in late 2019 until December 2022, China implemented stringent infection prevention and control measures known as the Zero-COVID policy. Western observers and some Chinese intellectuals have questioned this rigid policy, but few studies offer a comprehensive overview of the political reasonings behind it. This article positions the Zero-COVID policy in a broader historical context of the Chinese Communist Party’s regime maintenance, revolutionary legacies, and political mobilisation. It analyses the political reasonings behind this policy from three dimensions: system, actors, and approach, and provides accounts of the politics of the pandemic. The results reveal that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party was caught in a dilemma. The Zero-COVID policy is used to bolster legitimacy of the regime; however, it also set traps in which the Chinese government risked losing the public’s trust. The negative outcomes of the policy were underestimated by the Chinese leadership, which believed in its ability to balance the cost and benefit of this policy for the sake of maintenance of its rule. The politics of COVID-19 mirrors China’s authoritarian politics in general.","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":"53 1","pages":"869 - 886"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49577837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2183140
C. Weathers, S. Kojima, S. North
{"title":"Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020","authors":"C. Weathers, S. Kojima, S. North","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2183140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2183140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41334023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2183886
Gabriel Camară
{"title":"<i>L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [Southeast Asia 2022: assessment, challenges and perspectives].</i>","authors":"Gabriel Camară","doi":"10.1080/00472336.2023.2183886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2183886","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Asia","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136171829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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