Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China

✍ Scribed by Alvin Y. So

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978.The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of different patterns of class conflict (among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class) in post-socialist China, the book provides comprehensive overviews of different patterns of class conflict. It uses a state-centered approach to study class conflict, i.e., study how the communist party-state restructures the patterns of class conflict in Chinese society, and brings in a historical dimension by tracing the origins and developments of class conflict in socialist and post-socialist China.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Preface
List of Tables
Chapter 1. Introduction
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
THE FRAMEWORK
RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND KEY ARGUMENTS
Chapter 2. Class and Class Conflict in Socialist China (1949–1978)
CLASS AND CLASS CONFLICT IN PRE-1949 CHINA
THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION AND THE FORCED WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECONOMY
PRE-1956 DEVELOPMENTAL POLICIES AND THEIR CLASS TARGETS
SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW CLASS RELATIONS AFTER 1956
THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW CLASS TO THE SOCIALIST PARTY-STATE
TOWARD A NEW CONCEPTION OF CLASS IN POST-1956 SOCIALIST CHINA
PROBLEMS OF THE NEW CLASS ANALYSIS
Chapter 3. Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China Since 1978
NEOLIBERALISM AND STATE NEOLIBERALISM
NEOLIBERALISM CAPITALISM IN CHINA IN THE LATE 1970S AND THE 1980S
RE-BUILDING THE STATE AND THE DEEPENING OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM IN THE 1990s
ANOTHER WAVE OF SOCIAL RESISTANCES TO THE DEEPENING OF NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM IN THE 1990s
THE TRANSITION FROM NEOLIBERALISM TO STATE NEOLIBERALISM AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
CONCLUSION
Chapter 4. The Making of a Cadre–Capitalist Class
INTRODUCTION
THE DESTRUCTION AND RECREATION OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS: 1950s–1980S
THE MAKING OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS (I): THE EMBOURGEOISEMENT OF CADRES
Local State Corporatism in Rural China
Corporatization of Urban State Enterprises
State Entrepreneurship
THE MAKING OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS (II): THE PATRONIZATION OF CAPITALISTS
Informal Patronage by Local Cadres
Formal Patronage by Local Party-State
Formal Patronage by Central Party-State
THE FORMATION OF A HYBRID CADRE–CAPITALIST CLASS
Cadre–Capitalists
Class Formation
CLASS CONFLICT
Class Differentiation and Class Polarization
The Superimposition of Class Conflict
BOURGEOIS STRUGGLES
Ideological Struggles through Reinventing Themselves as Loyal “Entrepreneurs”
Political Corporatism
Struggles to Protect its Class Interests
CONCLUSION
Chapter 5. The Transformation of the Maoist Working Class in Urban China
THE MAOIST WORKING CLASS DURING 1950s–1960s
INEQUALITY AND CONFLICT IN THE DANWEI
THE REMAKING OF THE MAOIST WORKING CLASS SINCE 1978
THE THREE GUARANTEES TO DEFUSE WORKING CLASS DISCONTENT
STRUGGLES OF THE MAOIST WORKING CLASS
Create Social Divisions Within the Working Class
Impose Political Repression to Disorganize the Working Class
Set Up Labor Legislations to Pre-empt Labor Protests
Adopt the Tactics of Accommodation to Diffuse Working Class Protest
Maintain a Moral High Ground by Shifting the Blames to the Lower-Level Officials
RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MARKET HEGEMONY
THE FUTURE OF LABOR INSURGENCY IN CHINA
Chapter 6. The Making of the New Migrant Working Class in South China
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
THE REALIGNMENT OF CLASS RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
THE REMAKING OF THE WORKING CLASS IN SOUTH CHINA
Chapter 7. The Making and Remaking of the Maoist Peasantry
THE PEASANT PROBLEM ON THE EVE OF THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
THE MAOIST PEASANTRY DURING THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
Land Reform
Accelerated Collectivization
Great Leap Forward and Retreat from Collectivism
The Collectivization Experiment and Class Inequality
THE REMAKING OF THE MAOIST PEASANTRY SINCE 1978
THE FIRST WAVE OF PEASANT PROTESTS AGAINST TAXES AND FEES IN THE LATE 1980S
THE RISE OF LOCAL PREDATORY STATE
THE SECOND WAVE OF PEASANT PROTESTS AGAINST ILLEGAL LAND SEIZURE SINCE THE 1990S
THE FORMATION OF A BIFURCATED STATE
THE PATTERN OF PEASANT PROTESTS AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
The Target of Peasant Protests
The Discourse of Peasant Protests
The Strategy of Peasant Protests
The Leaders of Peasant Protests
The Impact of Peasant Protests
THE CHANGING PATTERN OF PEASANT PROTESTS IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
CONCLUSION
Chapter 8. The Making of a New Middle Class
THE LITERATURE ON THE CHINESE NEW MIDDLE CLASS’S DEMOCRATIC POTENTIAL
A DEPENDENT, RESTRICTED NEW MIDDLE CLASS IN SOCIALIST CHINA
THE FORMATION OF THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS IN POST-SOCIALIST CHINA
THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS’S MODE OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND THE PARTY-STATE
TOWARD A QUIET DEMOCRATIZATION?
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Chapter 9. Conclusion
References
Index