The continuity lies in China having solved the basic problems of education, health, inequality (land reforms), and relative gender equality in these. Deng Xiaoping's policies may have been a break from auturky and small scale production but he could not have moved forward had those earlier accomplishments not existed. In contrast India is mired in getting these basic things right with limited success. I am of course aware, aside from the differences in political systems, the world economy had also changed fundamentally in the 1970s so what was possible in the 1950s China may not be possible in 2000s India when some bolder social programs were initiated. Instead at some level I see that both are witnessing grotesque inequality and a poisoned environment.
Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ Conference: http://idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Instruments-of-Intervention_prog_abstract_final.pdf New: After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do New Book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415564953/ New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Feb 27, 2016, at 07:40, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: >> > https://news.vice.com/article/beijing-overtakes-new-york-to-become-billionaire-capital-of-the-world-1 >> >> A companion piece in the New Yorker illustrates the contradictory legacy of >> the Chinese Revolution: more people have been lifted out of poverty but >> class inequality has grown at a greater pace than at any time in world >> history. > > > To what extent is the Chinese economic expansion of the last 3 decades a > legacy of the 1949 Revolution? Isn't it more accurate to think of it as the > legacy of Deng Xiaoping who in turn represented a sharp break with the 1949 > revolution after Mao's death? > > What exactly is socialist about the PRC today? > -raghu. > > > > >> "About a third of China’s wealth belongs to just one per cent of the >> population. While China’s poor still inhabit a developing-world economy, a >> recent report found that the country now has more dollar billionaires than >> the U.S. does. >> >> “A study by the Bank of China and the Hurun Report found that sixty per cent >> of the country’s rich people were either in the process of moving abroad or >> considering doing so.” >> >> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/chinas-rich-kids-head-west > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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