Description
This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and measures by the government to resolve or defer the crises. The book offers profound insights into China’s endeavours and predicaments on the path of modernization, and contemplates opportunities and lessons for the forging of alternative trajectories not only for China but also for the global south: to reconstruct rural communities for integrated cooperation and governance, and to revitalize ecological civilization. WEN Tiejun is Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China, Beijing; Executive Dean, the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University, Chongqing; Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China. He is a Founding Member of the Global University for Sustainability. Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950.- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976.- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996.- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008.- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.
