China’s capitalist transformation: The rhetoric that mattered

Yuan Li

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

China’s capitalist transformation

The rhetoric that mattered

Yuan Li

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110773248

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About this book

This book provides a rare account of China’s market reform in the own words of the Chinese: politicians, intellectuals, the media, and journalists. The Chinese rhetoric―complex, ironic, argumentative, and abstruse―may hold the key to understanding China’s unique style of elite politics, state-citizen relationship, and institutional development. Topics include the establishment and change of the stock market and the recent institutionalization of the private equity industry. Rhetoricizing the Chinese capitalist transformation provides a glimpse into how the Chinese minds work as Chinese people participate in the process of changing the country and themselves. Adopting both an indigenous perspective and an outsider view on China, this book serves as a guide for anyone interested in learning how Chinese reason, persuade, debate, and resist.

Author / Editor information

Dr. Yuan Li is a business professor specializing in management, strategy, and organization theory. She obtained her PhD from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the rhetoric and semiotics of institutional and organizational change. She has published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Communication Quarterly, and Culture and Organization, among others. She serves on the Editorial Board of Organization Studies.
Having grown up in China and spent an equal number of years living in North America, Yuan takes both an indigenous perspective and an outsider view on China. This dual approach helps uncover the cultural meanings associated with the extraordinary changes in economic and organizational systems. To her, the enigma of China can only be explained by looking at the Chinese rhetoric: the tone, style, content, and symbolism. A disclaimer: As a management scholar, her research on China is expected to contribute to the study of organizations and institutions, a field characterized by theorizing and building conceptual models…so forgive the sections on "theory."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Chapter 1 Institutions, Rhetoric, and China Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Scholarly Accounts of China’s Transformation Open Access Download PDF	8
Chapter 3 Casuistry as Rhetorical History: Legitimating China’s Market Transformation Open Access Download PDF	18
Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market Open Access Download PDF	62
Chapter 5 The Rhetorics That Won: How Three Elite Controversies Shaped China’s Stock Market Institutions Open Access Download PDF	104
Chapter 6 Spreading the Sunshine: The Rapid Growth and Transformation of China’s Private Equity Industry Open Access Download PDF	151
Chapter 7 Concluding Thoughts Open Access Download PDF	191
References Open Access Download PDF	195
Index Open Access Download PDF	211

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers in the fields of organization and management studies, sociology, political science, history, and communications.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 11
Keywords: China’s capitalist transformation; Rhetoric; Institutional change; Politics; Qualitative and quantitative content analysis

eBook

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783110773248

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783110773163