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From Dualistic Opposition to Dyadic Integration: Toward a New Political Economy of Chinese Practice.
- Source :
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Modern China . May2022, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p459-497. 39p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This article argues for the construction of a new political economy based on Chinese practices. It begins with an explanation of the research approach of starting from practice, and from a distinctive mode of thinking that is akin to that of medicine, rather than Newtonian physics and mathematical logic. Then it discusses the present-day Chinese practices of combining socialism with market economy, state enterprises with private enterprises, the peasant economy with an industrial economy, and the party-state with the economy—all distinctive realities about the new Chinese political-economic system. The foil for the discussion is the long-standing hegemonic ideology and worldview of Anglo-American classical and neoclassical liberal economics and law. This article suggests that we employ China's traditional dyadic integration worldview, evident in today's practices, to arrive at a new integrative cosmological view that rises above both. To a considerable extent, this article is also a reinterpretation of classical Marxist political economy. What the article advocates may be termed a "participatory socialist market economy," to be distinguished from a bureaucratized and controlling socialist planned economy. This is a system that is still very much in the process of formation, its particular content and characteristics yet to be clarified and specified through a sustained period of searching through practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00977004
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Modern China
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156391752
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004221082515