{"id":33950,"date":"2022-12-28T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33950"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:45:18","slug":"jason-m-kelly-market-maoists-the-communist-origins-of-chinas-capitalist-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33950","title":{"rendered":"Jason M. Kelly, “Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China\u2019s Capitalist Ascent”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long before Deng Xiaoping\u2019s market-based reforms, commercial relationships bound the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism and left lasting marks on China\u2019s trade and diplomacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China today seems caught in a contradiction: a capitalist state led by a Communist party. But as Market Maoists<\/em> shows, this seeming paradox is nothing new. Since the 1930s, before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, Communist traders and diplomats have sought deals with capitalists in an effort to fuel political transformation and the restoration of Chinese power. For as long as there have been Communists in China, they have been reconciling revolutionary aspirations at home with market realities abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Kelly<\/strong> unearths this hidden history of global commerce, finding that even Mao Zedong saw no fundamental conflict between trading with capitalists and chasing revolution. China\u2019s ties to capitalism transformed under Mao but were never broken. And it was not just goods and currencies that changed hands. Sustained contact with foreign capitalists shaped the Chinese nation under Communism and left deep impressions on foreign policy. Deals demanded mutual intelligibility and cooperation. As a result, international transactions facilitated the exchange of ideas, habits, and beliefs, leaving subtle but lasting effects on the values and attitudes of individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing from official and commercial archives around the world, including newly available internal Chinese Communist Party documents, Market Maoists<\/em> recasts our understanding of China\u2019s relationship with global capitalism, revealing how these early accommodations laid the groundwork for China\u2019s embrace of capitalism in the 1980s and after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason M. Kelly<\/strong> is Assistant Professor at the U.S. Naval War College and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He was previously a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sober, detailed account of the way modern China came to see that global trade could be a way to \u2018fortify socialism\u2026rather than degrade it.\u2019\u2026 Kelly conveys what a highwire act it must have been to conduct business on Mao\u2019s watch.\u201d\u2014Tim Sifert, Asian Review of Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShould 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\u2019s capitalist ascent as sketched in Market Maoists<\/em> is therefore critical to any history of the contemporary global economy.\u201d\u2014Philip Thai, Business History Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA 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.\u201d\u2014Shaofan An, China Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn excellent book, extremely well researched and very well written. Kelly provides a valuable overview of PRC trade policies and the significance of China\u2019s 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\u2019s future adds a great deal to our understanding of China in the world.\u201d\u2014Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China\u2013Korea Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKelly skillfully integrates the Chinese case into a new wave of scholarship transforming our understanding of post\u2013World War II global economic integration. Behind the political confrontation between market-led and planned economies during the Cold War, as he persuasively demonstrates, China\u2019s ongoing need to trade continually shaped its foreign and domestic policy, anticipating the country\u2019s more high-profile engagement with market economies in the late twentieth century and since.\u201d\u2014Karl Gerth, author of Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China\u2019s Communist Revolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy examining how the Chinese Communist Party leadership treated trade with the capitalist world, Kelly sheds new light on China\u2019s 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.\u201d\u2014Shu Guang Zhang, author of Economic Cold War: America\u2019s Embargo against China and the Sino\u2013Soviet Alliance, 1949\u20131963<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn excellent history of China\u2019s state-led international economic relations in the Maoist era. Kelly captures China\u2019s 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, \u2018trade always served politics.\u2019 The Party would remain in control. This is a lesson taken to heart by Chinese leaders today.\u201d\u2014William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Map: Mao\u2019s China in Markets Abroad: People\u2019s Republic of China Commercial Offices Established outside the Socialist Bloc by 1970<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Abbreviations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Opening a Capitalist Window<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Closing the Open Door<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. The Korean War and the Fight for Trade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    4. Commerce in the Making of \u201cPeaceful Coexistence\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5. A \u201cGreat Leap\u201d in Trade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6. Trading for Salvation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7. Markets and the Rise and Fall of Redness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Epilogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Abbreviations in the Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986497<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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