China: the emergence of capitalism and the art of 'guanxi' or social connections
Laurie Taylor hears how China has managed its astonishing economic turn around.Ìý , Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and Sinologist, studied the workings of some eighty different Chinese companies in order to find out how the Chinese dragon has fitted itself out in a very sharp-looking three piece business suit.Ìý In his view, the answer is more complicated than Western economists would have us believe.Ìý China has certainly learned a lot from the West but the most populous nation on the planet has applied Western economic nostrums in a very Chinese way, ignoring advice from the west to privatise everything.
Chapeltown: paradise in the making
Chapeltown in Leeds has been home to many waves of migrants, Irish, Scots and Welsh, Jews, Poles and Ukrainians and is dominated today by a black population of African Caribbeans and Asians.Ìý Laurie Taylor hears about the efforts to build a multi-ethnic community in Chapeltown from , who's lived and worked in the area for almost thirty years.Ìý In his book The Struggle for "Community" in a British Multi-Ethnic inner City Area - Paradise in the Making Max Farrar tells the story of how outsiders' assumptions about Chapeltown and the peoples who lived, and still live there, have had a considerable impact, usually for the worst, on its fluctuating fortunes.Ìý It describes the fine line that exists between the making and breaking of social movements with a utopian community agenda.ÌýÌýÌý
Further information:
Doug Guthrie
269 Mercer Street
New York
N.Y. 10003
Tel: (212)998-8340
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit - The Emergence of Capitalism in China
(Princeton University Press - ISBN: 0-691-09519-1)
Social Connections in China, Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
Edited by Thomas Gold, Dough Guthrie and David Wank
(Cambridge University Press - ISBN: 0-521-53031-8)
The Struggle for "Community" in a British Multi-Ethnic inner City Area - Paradise in the Making
(Edwin Mellen Press; ISBN: 0773470425)
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