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Livre

Gewirtz Julian

Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

Harverd University Press 2017,

60,00 €

Pali s.r.l. Libreria (Roma, Italie)

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Auteur
Gewirtz Julian
Éditeurs
Harverd University Press 2017
Thème
CINA China Chine
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo, br. ed. pp356. Unlikely Partners</i> recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their countryís borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nationís tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light Chinaís productive exchanges with the West.<br><br>When Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors seized the opportunity to reassess the wisdom of Chinaís rigid commitment to Marxist doctrine. With Deng Xiaopingís blessing, Chinaís economic gurus scoured the globe for fresh ideas that would put China on the path to domestic prosperity and ultimately global economic power. Leading foreign economists accepted invitations to visit China to share their expertise, while Chinese delegations traveled to the United States, Hungary, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil, and other countries to examine new ideas. Chinese economists partnered with an array of brilliant thinkers, including Nobel Prize winners, World Bank officials, battle-scarred veterans of Eastern Europeís economic struggles, and blunt-speaking free-market fundamentalists.<br><br>Nevertheless, the push from Chinaís senior leadership to implement economic reforms did not go unchallenged, nor has the Chinese government been eager to publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations. Even today, Chinese Communists decry dangerous Western influences and officially maintain that Chinaís economic reinvention was the Partyís achievement alone. <i>Unlikely Partners</i> sets forth the truer story, which has continuing relevance for Chinaís complex and far-reaching relationship with the Wes