Notes on Jean-Claude Delaunay's Les Trajectoires Chinoises de Modernisation et de Developpement, De l'Empire agro-militaire à l'Etat-Nation et au Socialisme. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Andreani, Tony
• Is Part Of: International critical thought. Volume 9:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 610
• Page End: 616
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Economic development of China -- Marxism with Chinese characteristics -- socialist market economy -- socialism; Critical thinking -- Periodicals; Current events -- Periodicals; 153.4205
• DOI: 10.1080/21598282.2019.1695488
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-8282

Abstract

ABSTRACT: China entered the modern epoch in the nineteenth century with a production system incapable of achieving its modernization. Only the Communist Revolution made it possible to emancipate the country from its previous structures. Since then the Chinese economy has followed new trajectories in the area of actual practice and in the ideological and theoretical fields. The first part of the book describes China's present-day trajectories—demographic, agricultural, industrial and commercial. These trajectories reflect the transformation of the country's structural heritage, along with the rise of the forms that succeeded it and opened the way for China's subsequent achievements. The second part deals principally with the new theoretical trajectories that have appeared in China. The focus is on the evolution undergone by the Marxist ideas and theories that led the modernization process as a whole. The author Jean-Claude Delaunay, who was born in 1938, is an honorary professor of French universities who now lives in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. He has published a dozen books and many articles. He is currently Vice-President of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) and co-editor of the association's journal World Review of Political Economy .