In recent years, China has become a major actor in the global economy, making a remarkable switch from a planned and egalitarian socialism to a simultaneously w

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming its

China's rise within global society and politics has brought it into the spotlight - for social scientists, the country's long and dramatic transformations in th

This volume explains China's economic rise and liberalization and assesses how this growth is reshaping the structure and dynamics of global capitalism in the t

Focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery.