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Workers' protests in the 1980s and 1990s, numerous and widely distributed though they may be, remain spasmodic, spontaneous and unco-ordinated. While the reasons are numerous, this article focuses on the role of workers' hegemonic acceptance of the core values of the market and the state. Data from interviews in Tianjin from 1995 to 1999 are used to explicate the existence of this hegemony. Several of its sources, some general, some specific to China, are then discussed. The findings are situated within recent scholarship on labour politics in China, and the prospects are discussed.

A neo-Gramscian framework is explicated, with specific attention to some problems of adapting it to the practice & analysis of state socialism, & used to analyze the attempts of the Chinese revolution & the Maoist state to erect a new hegemony based around the core concept of class, with focus on language, moral values, agendas of local political participation, consciousness, & culture. A dialectically formulated discussion of the contradictions that led to the ultimate failure of the Maoist class-based hegemonic project, its lingering effects, & its outcome in its Dengist opposite is presented. The contradictions of the Dengist period, which foreshadowed the crisis that exploded in Apr 1989, are identified. It is concluded that the neo-Gramscian approach: (1) provides the basis for explicating the interpenetration of cultural, poltical, & social change; (2) shows that the Maoist hegemonic project did not eventuate merely in a political program or set of policies, but more broadly in a structure of conflict with its own specific dialectic; (3) keeps open the problematic of state-society relations under state socialism & helps expose some of its complexity; (4) exposes the existence of counterhegemonic forces throughout the period of intense Maoist strivings for a new class-based hegemony; & (5) highlights the difficulty that even a very powerful state has in establishing a new hegemony. AA

Chinese state socialism has, for many years, politicized what crops the country's farmers plant. By doing so, it has transformed the agriculture radically and repeatedly. The state has adopted some strikingly different policy directions and modalities during both the Maoist and Dengist periods. The authors analyse and discuss the political economy in Maoist and Dengist China in Shulu (Hebei province). (DÜI-Sen)

This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

1. The CCP's Shifting Class Discourse: The Objectivity, Subjectivity and Utility of ClassYingjie Guo2. Learning to Live with Social Change: The Communist Party of China, Class and MobilisationDavid S G Goodman3. Between Revolution and Reform: Class, Class Struggle, and Land Redistribution Yingjie Guo 4. The Communist Party of China, Working Class and Social Change, 1920-1949 Marc Blecher5. Class as a Political Tool in Rural China: The Middle Peasant in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 David S G Goodman6. Radical Politics and the apotheosis of the working class, 1949-1978 Marc Blecher7. Emergence without settling: the trajectory of the Chinese middle class from 1949 to the 1980s Jean-Louis Rocca8. The Dominant Class in a Changing Polity: Transformation and InstitutionalisationDavid S G Goodman

"By examining the changing political economy in China through detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the dominant class, this volume reveals the Communist Party of China [CCP]'s impact on social change in China between 1978-2021. This book explores in depth the CCP's program of reform and openness that had a dramatic impact on China's socio-economic trajectory following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution. It also goes on to chart the acceptance of Market Socialism, highlighting the resulting emergence of a larger middle class, whilst also appreciating the profound consequences this created for workers and peasants. Additionally, this volume examines the development of the dominant class which remains a defining feature of China's political economy and the Party-state. Providing an in-depth analysis of class as understood by the CCP in conjunction with sociological interpretations of socio-economic and socio-political change, this study will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Politics, Chinese History, Asian Politics and Asian studies"--