China on the brink of a "Momentous Era"

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Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 585-611

  Wang, Xiaoming ^a  

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EID: 33947423507     PISSN: 10679847     EISSN: 15278271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-11-3-585     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Lu Xun, "'Chenying' tici" [Forward to "Dust shadows"], in Eryi ji [And that's that] (Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1958), 107.
2. Lu Xun, "Xiaopin wenxue de weiji" [The crisis of the essay], in Nanqiang beidiaoji [Mixed dialects] (Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1958), 133;
3. reprinted in Lu Xun: Selected Works, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, vol. 3 (Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1980), 343.
4. In the past few years some have started to criticize this, such as Pei Jianguo, "Ye tan woguo xiaofei buzu de chengyin" [Reasons for our nation's insatiable consumption], Hainan Shifan xueyuan xuebao (Renmin shehui kexue ban) [Hainan Normal College journal] 1 (2000): 108-110.
5. See Li Peilin, ed., Zhongguo xinshiqi jieji jieceng baogao [Report on social classes in China in the New Era] (Liaoning: Renmin chubanshe, 1995), esp. 221-291, 334-374;
6. Sun Lipeng et al., "Zhongguo shehui jiegou zhuanxing de zhongjinqi qushi yu yinhuan" [Recent trends and latent dangers in the transformation of China's social structure], Zhanlüe yu guanli [Strategy and management] 5 (1998): 1-17;
7. Li Qiang, "Shichang zhuanxing yu Zhongguo zhongjian jieceng de daiji gengti" [Market changes and the generational replacement of the Chinese middle class], Zhanlüe yu guanli 3 (1999): 35-44.
8. See He Qinglian, "Dangqian Zhongguo shehui jiegou yanbian de zongtixing fenxi" [Comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the contemporary Chinese social structure], Shuwu [Bookstore] 2 (2000): 1-16.
9. There are, of course, a few truly talented people in the new rich, but on the whole, whether judging by intelligence, knowledge, or character, they cannot be considered exceptional.
10. On the pessimism of the new rich, see Li Qiang's fascinating description in "Dangdai Zhongguo shehui de sige liyi qunti" [Four groups of beneficiaries in contemporary Chinese society]. The complete text of this article was first circulated on the Internet and was later published in considerably edited form in Xueshujie [Academic circles] 3 (2000): 5-19.
11. On the changes in Chinese society in the reform from the 1980s through the 1990s, especially the abrupt change delineated by June Fourth, see Wang Hui's penetrating analysis in 1989 shehui yundong, xin ziyouzhuyi jiqi piping [The 1989 social movement, New Liberalism, and its detractors] (Taipei: Taiwan shehui kexue yanjiu, 2000).
12. The earliest discussion of the "successful man" is in Cai Xiang's article "Guanggao wutuobang" [Advertising Utopia], in Shensheng huiyi [Sacred recollections] (Shanghai: Dongfang chuban zhongxin, 1998), 220-226. In the autumn of 1998 a group of literary critics and humanities scholars in Shanghai launched an ongoing discussion of these issues under the general topic "market ideology in contemporary China."
13. For example, the esteeming of the middle-class, white-collar workers, etc., in mid-1990s publications, as well as several economists that discussed "market economic reform" in the same breath as Western European "primitive accumulation of capital." The latter is discussed in Lu Zhoulai's critical article, "Guanyu fubai de jingjixue fenxi" [On corrupt economic analysis] Tianya [Frontier] 3 (2000): 31-37.