Erik Eriksen is a remarkable individual. He has no college degrees yet is Professor of Human Development at Harvard University. He came to psychology via art, which explains why the reader will find him painting contexts and backgrounds rather than stating dull facts and concepts. He has been a training psychoanalyst for many years as well as a perceptive observer of cultural and social settings and their effect on growing up. This is not just a book on childhood. It is a panorama of our society. Anxiety in young children, apathy in American Indians, confusion in veterans of war, and arrogance in young Nazis are scrutinized under the psychoanalytic magnifying glass. The material is well written and devoid of technical jargon. The theme of the volume is that it is human to have a long childhood which will leave a lifelong residue of emotional immaturity in man. Primitive groups and

Childhood and Society.

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

China's economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China's institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve the "China puzzle," this paper analyzes China's institution—a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over personnel, whereas subnational governments run the bulk of the economy; and they initiate, negotiate, implement, divert, and resist reforms, policies, rules, and laws. China's reform trajectories have been shaped by regional decentralization. Spectacular performance on the one hand and grave problems on the other hand are all determined by this governance structure. ( JEL O17, O18, O43, P21, P25, P26)

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The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development

Presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural experiments, with long-lasting damage to the economy and society. A weak financial sector, income disparity, rising illiteracy, productivity slowdowns, and reduced personal income growth are the product of the capitalism with Chinese characteristics of the 1990s and beyond. While GDP grew quickly in both decades, the welfare implications of growth differed substantially. The book uses the emerging Indian miracle to debunk the widespread notion that democracy is automatically anti-growth. As the country marked its 30th anniversary of reforms in 2008, China faces some of its toughest economic challenges and substantial vulnerabilities that require fundamental institutional reforms.

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State

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Urbanisation and health in China

One notable feature of the reform programme sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been the expansion of social organizations. With greater social space created by the reforms and with the state unable or unwilling to carry the same wide range of services and functions as before, organizations with varying degrees of autonomy from the party-state structures have been set up. They have been allowed or have created an increased organizational sphere and social space in which to operate and to represent social interests, and to convey those interests into the policy-making process. They not only liaise between state and society but also fulfil vital welfare functions that would otherwise go unserved.

Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China

Preface - Introduction - China's Changing Road to Development: Political History 1949-1978 - China Under Reform, 1978-2000 - The Chinese Communist Party - The Central Governing Apparatus - Governance Beyond the Center - Political Participation and Protest - The Chinese State and Society - Economic Policy - Social Policy - Foreign Policy - Challenges in the Twenty-First Century - Guide to Futher Reading - Bibliography

Governance and politics of China

China is one of the countries with the longest histories in the world. The people of all nationalities in China have jointly created a splendid culture and have a glorious revolutionary tradition. Feudal China was gradually reduced after 1840 to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. The Chinese people waged wave upon wave of heroic struggles for national independence and liberation and for democracy and freedom. Great and earth-shaking historical changes have taken place in China in the 20th century. The Revolution of 1911, led by Dr Sun Yat-sen, abolished the feudal monarchy and gave birth to the Republic of China. But the Chinese people had yet to fulfil their historical task of overthrowing imperialism and feudalism. After waging hard, protracted and tortuous struggles, armed and otherwise, the Chinese people of all nationalities led by the Communist Party of China with Chairman Mao Zedong as its leader ultimately, in 1949, overthrew the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism, won the great victory of the new-democratic revolution and founded the People's Republic of China. Thereupon the Chinese people took state power into their own hands and became masters of the country.

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Constitution of the People's Republic of China

Preface Acknowledgments Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES Four Struggles Three Stories One Line YAN'AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE The Surviving Yan'anites The Terrain on the Ground Yan'an as a Revolutionary Simulacrum THE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945 Notes Index

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic

Public Goods' Regimes, Social Welfare Provision and China Welfare Provision, 1949-1979 The Provision of Public Goods during the Reform Period Challenges in the Health System Dealing with Public Health Crises and Pandemics Building a New Social Insurance System Poverty Relief and Social Assistance Providing Social Welfare: States, Markets, and Civil Society

Tony Saich

Papers

Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China

Governance and politics of China

Constitution of the People's Republic of China

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic

Providing public goods in transitional China