Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector - Softcover

Dickson, Bruce J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521702704 ISBN 13: 9780521702706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In Wealth into Power, Bruce Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China, or that China's private entrepreneurs are helping to promote democratization. Instead, they have become partners with the ruling Chinese Communist Party to promote economic growth while maintaining the political status quo. Dickson's research illuminates the Communist Party's strategy for incorporating China's capitalists into the political system and how the shared interests, personal ties, and common views of the party and the private sector are creating a form of 'crony communism'. Rather than being potential agents of change, China's entrepreneurs may prove to be a key source of support for the party's agenda. Based on years of research and original survey data, this book will be of interest to all those interested in China's political future and in the relationship between economic wealth and political power.

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Review:

'... an important book that puts China on the map of general social science theories.' Journal of Asian Studies

Book Description:

Bruce Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China. Instead, he argues, China's entrepreneurs have become partners with the ruling Chinese Communist Party to promote economic growth while maintaining the political status quo, in effect creating a form of 'crony communism'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521702704
• ISBN 13: 9780521702706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292