The Chinese Way: Alternative Policy Perspectives and Challenges

This book explores China's alternative policy and challenges policy makers on gender, regional, income, and wage inequalities among rural migrant workers. It also examines China's social, environmental, economic, and governance policies to implement a sustainable financial and corporate system for a prosperous society. It rejects the duality of ideological criticism and dichotomous defense of China and highlights its achievements within the world capitalist system.

Format: Hardback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume aims to explore innovative narratives on China's alternative policy and challenge policymakers to address gender, regional, income, and wage inequalities among rural migrant workers in the country. Additionally, the book delves into China's social, environmental, economic, and governance policies to establish a sustainable financial and corporate system for a prosperous society. The notion that China follows a capitalist or socialist model with Chinese characteristics stems from Eurocentric ideological narratives that rely on various forms of capitalism and national socialism. This book seeks to transcend the binary of ideological criticism and defend China based on ideological prisms such as capitalism or socialism. It rejects the flawed analysis of both sides of the ideological divide. While acknowledging the limitations within the global capitalist system, it is crucial to recognize and appreciate China's remarkable achievements. Attempts to undermine these achievements serve a strategic purpose to delegitimize the Chinese state, the Communist Party of China, the Chinese success story, and to obscure alternative paths based on the experience of The Chinese Way.

This book will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and scholars of Chinese studies, political economy, development studies, and those with a general interest in China's economic and public policies. It offers a fresh perspective on China's policy challenges and opportunities, contributing to a deeper understanding of the country's development trajectory and its role in the global economy.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032568171