Michael Drake

The Revival of China's Entrepreneurial Class in Historical-Comparative Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Prospects for a New Chinese Liberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The Revival of China's Entrepreneurial Class in Historical-Comparative Perspective: Prospects for a New Chinese Liberalism examines the evolution of China's entrepreneurial class and prospects for entrepreneurial-driven political institutional change. Michael Drake posits that decades of economic reforms and social transformation have illuminated a fundamental contradiction in contemporary China-a rule-by-law closed political system governing over an emergent entrepreneurial class requiring property protection-that requires resolution. Drake argues that the Chinese Communist Party has one of two choices: crush the entrepreneurial class, and with it, economic growth and the party's legitimacy, or cede to the entrepreneurs' demands for the rule of law and political representation. Drake's research shows the rise of liberal qualities-rationality, autonomy, property-law interests, political awareness, and political agency-among China's emergent entrepreneurial class. As such, Drake argues that this liberal trajectory, in conjunction with a lack of viable alternatives for the party, will translate into a new Chinese liberalism, and ultimately, political change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978786165
• Artikelnr.: 74398747

Autorenporträt

Michael Drake is independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: The Search for a Renewed Chinese Liberalism
Chapter Two: Liberal Class Development in England and France
Chapter Three: Illiberal Class Development in China: 907-1976
Chapter Four: China's Private Entrepreneurs: Economic Rationality and
Autonomy
Chapter Five: China's Private Entrepreneurs: State Predation and the Rise
of Property-Law Interests
Chapter Six: China's Private Entrepreneurs: the Formation of Liberal
Political Values?
Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Prospects for a Contemporary Chinese Bourgeoisie