Title: Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China
Abstract:As one of the last remaining socialist countries with perhaps the fastest-growing economy in the world today, China presents a challenge to critical thinking about globalization. It is imperative that...As one of the last remaining socialist countries with perhaps the fastest-growing economy in the world today, China presents a challenge to critical thinking about globalization. It is imperative that the question of alternatives and other possibilities and potentialities be raised in an attempt to theorize or conceptualize the process of globalization. Globalization is generally perceived as the result of the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, as well as the unprecedented expansion of transnational capitalism. While avowedly Eurocentric in its hegemonic formations, globalization also sets up an indispensable structural context for analyzing what happens in the world today. Therefore, globalization must be thought of as a dialectical process: it simultaneously refers to an idea, or an ideology (i.e., capitalism disguised as a triumphant, universal globalism), and to a concrete historical condition, by which various ideas, including capitalism in its present guise, must be measured. China's challenge to globalization can be perceived in both senses, first to global capitalism as an ideology, and then to the new world order, or world-system, as an accepted reality. China has become increasingly integrated into the global economic system, yet it retains anRead More
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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