Informal economy and chinas economic development with ying chen, dec 2017. Oct 16, 2019 zhun xu is a skeptic of these accounts. Call for papers on chinese and western intervention in. The saudi arabian economy is the fastest growing economy in the world. The chinese revolution and the building of rural communes in the last century are an important part of the global radical movement of overthrowing imperialismcapitalism and building a new society. Zhun xu is assistant professor of economics at howard university. Urpe at the eastern economics association annual conference. I am assistant professor in the department of economics at howard university. Zhun xu, howard university, economics department, faculty member. Xus reassessment of the path of agrarian change in china since 1949, which relies on interviews with peasants as well as statistical analysis, provides a fascinating window into the successes and the problems of collective farming in china. Zhun xu answers that the problems of the communes contributed to the passiveness of the peasantry. In the early 1980s, china undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families.
Mainstream economics resounding silence on race and racism. For 30 years the world has been caught in a long global interregnum, plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in chinas transition to a market economy. His recent publications appear in american journal of public health, journal of agrari. An accumulating amount of literature has been devoted to the study of the chinese economy since its takeoff in the early. The seemingly relentless rise of the chinese state and economy is never far from the headlines in the west. From commune to capitalism zhun xu book instock buy.
China, the west, and economic interventions in the african continent a conference in the critical tradition of w. I have taught at renmin university in beijing before joining howard. How chinaas peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty by zhun xu isbn. In this dissertation, i explored the historical conditions and consequences of these profound changes, in particular focusing on the history of rural collectives and. How chinas peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty zhun xu on. My book from commune to capitalism studies the dramatic. Review of radical political economics 47 3, 446459, 2015. He is finishing a book on the political economy of agrarian change in. His research interests include political economy, social development, and economic history.
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Zhun xu phd howard university, dc department of economics. Joining me now to analyze the situation of students and workers movement in china is zhun xu. The future of labor and capital in china, an li, zhun xu, for the forthcoming routledge handbook of global studies. About the author zhun xu is assistant professor of economics at howard university. How chinas peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty. In 1957, in the political economy of growth, paul baran made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the connection between economic surplusa concept he introduced into the development discussionand growth. Financial crises 1980s2010 in the oxford encyclopedia of american business, labor and economic history edited by melvyn dubofsky, oxford university press.
Howard university department of economics contributions. The routledge handbook of transformative global studies 1st. The routledge handbook of transformative global studies provides diverse and cuttingedge perspectives on this fastchanging field. Given that the ruling class controls the surplus of society, how the surplus is usedwhether it is invested, consumed, or simply wastedis at its discretion. This brief but effective book, only about 100 pages in main text, claims instead that decollectivization laid the basis for chinas capitalist restoration through two. Howard university 2400 sixth street nw, washington, d. Zhun xu in the early 1980s, china undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. The development of capitalist agriculture in china zhun xu. Shop for political economy books in political books. Department of economics development studies workshop the.
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