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TRANSFORMATIONS OF CHINA'S POST‐1949 POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Wong R. Bin
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2008.00402.x
Subject(s) - china , perspective (graphical) , economics , chinese economy , politics , economic reform , economy , neoclassical economics , positive economics , political science , law , artificial intelligence , computer science
. This article lays out three different historical perspectives on China's post‐1978 economic reform era. It argues that historical perspectives allow us to apprehend features of the Chinese economy as they are formed in particular moments and contexts at the same time as we can appreciate the ways in which the possibilities conceived and achieved both affirm certain past practices and reject others. Without such vantage points it is more difficult to explain the manner in which China's economy has changed in the past 30 years.