China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay

by Minxin Pei and 

Book Overview

When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China's Crony Capitalism traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737296
• ISBN13: 9780674737297
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"