{"product_id":"market-maoists-9780674986497","title":"Market Maoists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign capitalists to finance the revolution. Mao continued to promote trade after 1949. Jason Kelly shows how global deals kept China embedded in markets and their norms, laying the groundwork for the capitalist reforms of the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sober, detailed account of the way modern China came to see that global trade could be a way to ‘fortify socialism…rather than degrade it.’…Kelly conveys what a highwire act it must have been to conduct business on Mao’s watch. -- Tim Sifert * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eShould appeal to scholars exploring the rise of neoliberalism and the transformation of global capitalism since the 1970s, in which the PRC played a leading role. The history of China’s capitalist ascent as sketched in \u003ci\u003eMarket Maoists\u003c\/i\u003e is therefore critical to any history of the contemporary global economy. -- Philip Thai * Business History Review *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written book with compelling insights on the neglected interactions between Maoist China and global capitalist markets. It unquestionably enriches our understanding of how socialist China skillfully did business with Western traders to achieve its goal of state modernization, and sheds new light on the PRC history with a refreshingly global perspective. -- Shaofan An * China Review *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating…Based on wide-ranging primary sources of evidence, this elegant book convincingly argues that long before its formal policy reorientation in 1978, the People’s Republic of China was actively present in marketplaces in the East and West…A truly valuable contribution and merits serious attention from us all. -- Lin Chun * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eProvides unprecedented details of China’s foreign economic policies during the pre-1978 period and is an excellent example of scholarship based on field work in Mainland China…Makes an important new contribution to the existing literature. -- Lawrence C. Reardon * H-Diplo *\u003cbr\u003eGroundbreaking…\u003ci\u003eMarket Maoists\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating economic and political history that is well written and accessible also to readers unfamiliar with the history of socialist China…It deserves to be widely read and discussed. -- Jennifer Altehenger * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eCombining lively anecdotes with coherent historical analysis, \u003ci\u003eMarket Maoists\u003c\/i\u003e makes for an engaging read for undergraduate and graduate courses on Chinese and world history. It is also a valuable addition to the work of PRC scholars interested in bridging the geographical divide between China and the world and the temporal divide between the socialist years and the economic reforms…[An] excellent monograph. -- Sarah Chang * PRC History Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent book, extremely well researched and very well written. Kelly provides a valuable overview of PRC trade policies and the significance of China’s trade inside global markets during the Mao era. His comprehensive treatment of the internal battles over how to proceed with international trade and the effects these political decisions had on China’s future adds a great deal to our understanding of China in the world. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKelly skillfully integrates the Chinese case into a new wave of scholarship transforming our understanding of post–World War II global economic integration. Behind the political confrontation between market-led and planned economies during the Cold War, as he persuasively demonstrates, China’s ongoing need to trade continually shaped its foreign and domestic policy, anticipating the country’s more high-profile engagement with market economies in the late twentieth century and since. -- Karl Gerth, author of \u003ci\u003eUnending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining how the Chinese Communist Party leadership treated trade with the capitalist world, Kelly sheds new light on China’s commercial policies and activities and presents the Maoists as being much more economically well-informed and internationally vigorous than previously understood. An original contribution, as well as a joy to read. -- Shu Guang Zhang, author of \u003ci\u003eEconomic Cold War: America’s Embargo against China and the Sino–Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent history of China’s state-led international economic relations in the Maoist era. Kelly captures China’s necessary turn to trade with the West after 1973 as the precondition of the globalizing Chinese economy we know today. Most important, he reminds us, rightly, that for Mao and his successors, ‘trade always served politics.’ The Party would remain in control. This is a lesson taken to heart by Chinese leaders today. -- William C. Kirby, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCan China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865496858967,"sku":"9780674986497","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674986497.jpg?v=1722274246","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/market-maoists-9780674986497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}