Mao Zedong Is the Great Founder, Explorer and Pioneer of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-30
Author(s):  
Wang Weiguang
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Chinese Characteristics

scholarly journals The case of China’s Economic Reform: The Xi Jinping Era, a comparative analysis with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Gema I. Sornoza-Parrales ◽  
Gema M. Conforme-Cedeno ◽  
Viviana del Rocío Saltos-Buri ◽  
Laura C. Merchán-Nieto ◽  
Laura P. Muñíz-Jaime ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
High Degree

<p style="text-align: justify;">China is a faithful example when things are done well, great results are obtained, in part thanks to the role that the same culture played in the growth it has had and still has. Work and savings have been fundamental pillars for the economic development that this country during the last decades, not leaving aside the role played by the Western economies to nurture this reality; first, with the policies implemented by Mao and Deng when the country was in a great crisis generating the necessary investment and establishing a sufficient number of factories that allow to reactivate the Chinese economy; secondly, the opening by Xi to the western region becoming the passage of time, in one of the largest consumers and at the same time the largest producers in the world in different areas.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In a certain sense, it seems as if the powers of the West have exceeded looking for more short-term benefit, but without realizing the consequences that could be faced by adopting these decisions. On the other hand, China knew how to play the cards, your business became a truly business profitable: lend money and then be reimbursed in the coffers of the country, for the concept of selling products and paying interest on loans. The work of the State in the planning of economic policies, to medium and long term, which led to the generation of a market economy socialist with Chinese characteristics, does not remain outside when defining the economic success of the Asian giant. The implementation of this new economic model, which knew how to combine some dynamics of capitalism within the communist system, it played a very important role. The fact of generating great coordination between the public and private sectors, in addition to capture the market signals in a timely manner, allowed the results and economic policies were heading towards a prosperous path.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Nor can we ignore the autonomy and independence that has had the Communist Party to make political and economic decisions with the greatest opportunism and speed possible. This is proper to have a power not shared, which has undoubtedly generated that the measures taken obtain a high degree of efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This is how the application in China of a series of dynamics is explained of capitalism that allowed it, in a succession of conditions presented, that would grow by leaps and bounds as opposed to economies of most of the industrialized countries of the West. It is also in this way that it is understood that China has been able to take from poverty to 800 million people in 30 years (World Bank, 2012) and that, currently, is in the longed for place to be the largest economy world.</p>

Group-activity- and New-lesson-based Student Questioning in College Chinese Teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 979
Author(s):  
Ying Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Group Activity ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Student Questioning ◽  
Chinese Teaching ◽  
Chinese Undergraduates

Guided by the relevant classroom questioning theories, the author has practiced group-activity- and new-lesson-based student questioning-answering and self-answering model (GANL-SQuASA) in College Chinese teaching for five terms in Tianjin College, University of Science and Technology Beijing. The group activity is focused on the tough points specified in the Teaching Objectives of each lesson to be taught following the students’ PPT presentation, after which the usual student questioning and answering happens, but the questioning student has to offer answer to his/her own question and just this last stroke has brought students’ potentials into full play and added classroom attraction. At the completion of the course in each term, students found that their critical reading, appreciating, thinking and expressing abilities have obviously improved and they have developed into a habit of researching and a certain degree of academic consciousness which is relatively weak among Chinese undergraduates. The results of the questionnaire also verify that the model is a good try in College Chinese teaching, while the smooth application to other two courses, Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Traditional Chinese Culture proves that the model deserves spreading to the teaching of similar courses.

scholarly journals China after Reform: The Ideological, Constitutional, and Organisational Makings of a New Era

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Holbig
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
New Era ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Chinese Characteristics

In late 2017, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” Most observers interpreted this step as just another update of the party's ideological canon to accommodate Xi's ambition to increase his personal power, following in the footsteps of Mao Zedong. This contribution argues that we can achieve a better understanding of the claim about a “new era,” if this claim is analysed diachronically as an ongoing process of constructing “chrono-ideological narratives” that link past and future, as well as synchronically in the larger context of recent constitutional and organisational changes. It finds that the “new era” discourse might, in the longer term, have ramifications not only for China's domestic politics but also for the country's self-image in the international arena too.

An Unfinished Battle in China: The Leftist Criticism of the Reform and the Third Thought Emancipation

1999 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 447-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The Third ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Party Congress

With the curtain of its 15th National Congress falling, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) completed the generational change in the leadership. Jiang Zemin claimed that the CCP would continue Deng Xiaoping's line of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The Party's consensus on upholding Deng's policy was reflected in its revised constitution that paralleled Deng's theory with Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as the Party's guiding principle. However, the ongoing market reform has not proceeded without challenge, especially from the left. Between 1995 and 1997, four so-called wanyanshu (“ten-thousand-word” articles) circulated privately in Beijing, severely criticizing market reform for its deviation from socialism. On the eve of the 15th National Party Congress, the capital was stirred up again by a publicized counter-attack from reformers at the leftist criticisms, with Jiang Zemin's speech at the Central Party School on 29 May 1997 as a signal. Some even call this counter-criticism the “third thought emancipation.” Speculation arose of political rift in Beijing. These developments at least indicate that leftism represents a strong ideological force that the Party has to take seriously. Although the 15th National Congress ended up with a declaration of even bolder measures in economic reform, particularly in restructuring state-owned enterprises (SOEs), no one should expect that the leftist voice will easily fade away.

scholarly journals Mao Zedong, Sinization of Marxism, and Traditional Chinese Thought Culture

Asian Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Chenshan TIAN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Constitutive Relations ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Intellectuals ◽  
One And Many

The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the differences in reading Marxist philosophy from the perspective of the Inseparability of One and Many worldview and philosophy (a doctrine of internal, constitutive, relations––“intimacy”) on the part of Chinese intellectuals, particularly Mao Zedong, a great campaigner for philosophic and discursive Sinicization of Marxism. Marxism has provided an opportunity for a philosophical conversation with Chinese tradition, and this conversation was not launched by a government or official campaign, but instead by the efforts made on the part of countless grassroots intellectuals. It is argued that the reason for this was perhaps due to the fact that certain of Marx’s cosmological assumptions, in contrast to those of the main Western categories, are more capable of being understood and Sinicized in terms of particular philosophical currents in the Chinese tradition. This was particularly so for the two decades of the 1950s and 1960s, and until the end of the 1970s when Deng Xiaoping came to power and openly declared the start of his “Economic Reform” with the slogan “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.”

Re-assessing Chinese management: the influence of indigenous versus exogenous models

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Malcolm Warner ◽  
Zhu Ying
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Chinese Management ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
External Management ◽  
The Impact

This article sets out to analyse the evolution of management in the People’s Republic of China, particularly in terms of indigenous versus exogenous models. It looks the development of management concepts, terminology and practices in their organizational context. It sets out the historical background of these economic and management developments in the period when foreign capital dominated industry and trade up to 1949, then the ebbs and flows of Soviet influence on management under Mao Zedong after this date, the impact of the Cultural Revolution, followed by recent and contemporary aspects of the Deng Xiaoping’s mainly Western-inspired market reforms after 1979 and up to the present day, with a look at where future trends may go. In this overview, aimed at enhancing the understanding of Chinese organizational life, we attempt to see how far such concepts, and practices in Chinese management took over Western (and Japanese) usage and how far a distinctly Chinese model emerged. It concludes that given there were cross-cultural filters, external management models were influential but were adapted to local realities to become indigenous management models with what have been officially dubbed ‘with Chinese characteristics’.

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