Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
Political sociologists have sometimes described the Chinese Revolution as the product of an alliance between middle class intellectuals and the peasantry. In his innovative revision of Marxist-Leninist theory, Mao Zedong transformed the peasantry, a class disdained by...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment in Africa has shifted from the old solidarity rationale to a dangerously single-minded pursuit of economic interest. Forging links between growing Chinese civil society and its African...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the future. Fifteen years ago, the writings of globalist thinkers such as Kenichi Ohmae and Robert Reich celebrated the advent of the emergence of the...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
The much publicized wooing of African countries by China exemplified by the China-Africa meeting that took place in Beijing in the first week of November brings up the question of how China is faring in its economic relations with its closest neighbors? Southeast...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
Dale Wen's short book China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review [PDF], published by the International Forum on Globalization, is probably the best comprehensive introduction to the environmental and social impacts of China's breakneck industrialization...
