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Possibilities and Limits of the China Model

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2011, 26(2), pp.77-108
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2011.26.2.004
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation

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1호남대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Debates on China's future and prospects - whether China's future is threatened or still full of opportunities, whether civilizations are clashing or harmonizing, free market, legal democracy, legal governance, good governance, or liberal take on human rights - are diverse and very heated. This paper seeks to analyze whether China's economy, which has developed in a remarkable speed through the China Model, can sustain its development. In doing so, the paper also seeks to ascertain the limits of the China Model. Although China significantly lacks democracy, its hybrid political system is relatively stable. In fact, China's government and its Party is very capable at crisis management, has continued its independent development when there was no model for path dependence after the fall of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and has maintained control over the political system. China's persistent effort to devise its own development model demonstrates its effort to seek its unique economic development and market economy model in lieu of China's specific conditions and historical context. Thus, to describe what goes on in China, it would be more appropriate to use the China Model theory, rather than Western paradigms such as "modernization" or the Washington Consensus.

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