This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic historyof China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factorsleading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, andexamining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by thegovernment to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights intoChina's endeavours and predicaments on the path of modernization, andcontemplates opportunities and lessons for the forging of alternative trajectoriesnot only for China but also for the global south: to reconstruct rural communitiesfor integrated cooperation and governance, and to revitalize ecological civilization.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Contextualizes China's 70 years of contemporary history against one coherent backdrop Written by one of the leading scholars of agrarian issues in China Emphasizes the role of rural sector

Autorentext

Wen Tiejun is Director of the Centre of Rural Revitalization, Peking University;

Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest

University; and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the

Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar

on macro-economics and agrarian issues, Independent Non-Executive Director of

Postal Savings Bank of China, and policy advisor to the State Council and the

Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.

Klappentext

This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic historyof China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factorsleading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, andexamining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by thegovernment to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights intoChinäs endeavours and predicaments on the path of modernization, andcontemplates opportunities and lessons for the forging of alternative trajectoriesnot only for China but also for the global south: to reconstruct rural communitiesfor integrated cooperation and governance, and to revitalize ecological civilization.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950.- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976.- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996.- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008.- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.