Notes on Jean-Claude Delaunay’s Les Trajectoires Chinoises de Modernisation et de Developpement, De l’Empire agro-militaire à l’Etat-Nation et au Socialisme

ABSTRACT

China entered the modern epoch in the nineteenth century with a production system incapable of achieving its modernization. Only the Communist Revolution made it possible to emancipate the country from its previous structures. Since then the Chinese economy has followed new trajectories in the area of actual practice and in the ideological and theoretical fields. The first part of the book describes China’s present-day trajectories—demographic, agricultural, industrial and commercial. These trajectories reflect the transformation of the country’s structural heritage, along with the rise of the forms that succeeded it and opened the way for China’s subsequent achievements. The second part deals principally with the new theoretical trajectories that have appeared in China. The focus is on the evolution undergone by the Marxist ideas and theories that led the modernization process as a whole. The author Jean-Claude Delaunay, who was born in 1938, is an honorary professor of French universities who now lives in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. He has published a dozen books and many articles. He is currently Vice-President of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) and co-editor of the association’s journal World Review of Political Economy.

KEYWORDS:

• Economic development of China
• Marxism with Chinese characteristics
• socialist market economy
• socialism

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Notes on Contributor

Tony Andreani is Professor Emeritus of political sciences at Paris 8 University. His major works include From Society to History (2 volumes, Paris: Editions Meridiens-Klincksiek, 1989), Discourse on the Equality between Human Beings (Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1993), A Being of Reason: A Critique of Homo Oeconomicus (Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2000), Socialism Is (of) the Future (2 volumes, Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2001; 2nd ed. 2004), and Socialism in the XXI Century: Ten Essays (Paris: Editions Le temps des cerises, 2011).