Deutsche  Espagnol  Francais  Italiano  Portugais  Site map Amazon  DMOZ  Google  Yahoo	CHINA the race to market Keywords Chapter Five: Feeling the Stones as You Cross the River (Part One) Chapter One: China's Curse: To Live in Exciting Times Chapter Two: China and the US: Ineluctable Partners or Rivals? Chapter Three: The land of the rising dragon: China's Economic Growth Chapter Four: Riding the Tiger: China's Economic Policy Reform Chapter Five: Chapter Five: Feeling the Stones as You Cross the River (Part One) Chapter Six: Applying the Dracula Principle: China joins the WTO Chapter Seven: Keeping it in the Family: Corporate reform in China Chapter Eight: Getting China Right: The multi-national experience Chapter Nine: China in the Twenty-First Century Tables, Figures and Abbreviations Author's Biography and Photograph Jacket Cover and selected Reviews Chinese business links, Google, Yahoo, Author's Blog translate a word or phrase on this page Search for
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Chapter Five: Part One [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	Feeling the Stones as You Cross the River The party-state is a relic of the past century, not a herald for the next. Since the events of May-June 1989 on Tienanmen Square, China’s party-state has entered an implicit pact with the population: a rough and tough politics carries on within its precincts, but people enjoy much greater freedom than before. The problem is that the communist dynasty can no longer give a satisfactory response to the fundamental political question: By what right do you rule? Definitely, it can no longer answer with any credibility that it rules on behalf of workers and peasants. Yet the genie of market reforms is out of the bottle, and its twin, the genie of political reform or revolution, is struggling to escape. Either regime reformers lead the country through market-leninism to market-democracy,or economic policy becomes impaled on an untenable status quo. That is when the opportunity opens for revolution from below,with the regime cast in the role of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu and his wife, acclaimed one moment by the crowd, and killed the next. Let us follow the political transformation path sketched in the previous chapter, noting some reasons why China’s leadership has been on the ideological defensive since 1989. We can then look at the dynamics of revolution from below, some of the regime’s key political features, and assess the path that China’s market-leninists have yet to tread. Without such an assessment, corporate operations in China will be flying blind. The reason is simple: the essence of business is to have to deal with a future where risk and reward lie but  about which we know little. This chapter will isolate some central features of what we know, and do not know about China in the coming years.
Chapter Five (Part Two) [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	No alternatives to market-democracy China on the idealogical defensive Table 5.1 China in selected world rankings out of nine states Box 5.1 China's human rights practices China in the global knowledge structure China and the Asian Developmental State
Chapter Five (Part Three) [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	Why the trend to market-democracy Marx on the farm Table 5.2 Employment + sectors' proportion of the national economy (%) Where will all this population go? Marx in the towns and cities Box 5.2 Jiang Zemin's 'Three Representatives' Theory Box 5.3 Social discontent
Chapter Five (Part Four) [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	Key characteristics of totalitarian regimes Box 5.4 Li Ji on Tyranny Mature post-totalitarian rule Towards a Chinese civil society Box 5.5 China's religious policy Laying the groundwork for a legal system Administrative reforms A political marketplace
Chapter Five (Part Five) [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	A post-totalitarian regime The party’s official ideology and the reality of China Towards a consolidated democracy 'China Style' The conclusion is paradoxical
Chapter Five (Part Six) [Return to Top] [Go to Bottom] > Where am I? >	Chapter Five: References (Part Six) Chapter Five: (Full Printable version)

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