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Noting the failures of communism & capitalism in providing food for the world's hungry, a logical structure framework is used to review critiques of both systems regarding blueprints & their feasibility, realities, & reformability. In Maximizing Social Welfare of Institutionalizing Democratic Ideals? Commentary on Adam Przeworski's Article, Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Instit of Technology, Boston) concentrates on Przeworski's analysis of capitalism's irrationality & socialism's infeasibility. While he agrees with much of the argument, four points of disagreement are expressed. In Market Incompleteness, Innovation, and Reform: Commentary on Adam Przeworski's Article, Zhiyuan Cui (U of Chicago, Ill) focuses on the same points in Przeworski's analysis, discusses socialism's infeasibilities, & describes the sources of capitalism's irrationality. Strategies for reforming socialism are also presented. 1 Table, 2 Figures. C. Grindle

D'après Toynbee, la postmodernité se caractérise par la montée de la classe ouvrière sur la scène politique et l'adoption de la modernité occidentale par les intellectuels non occidentaux. Mais pour le poète Olson, la postmodernité est post-occidentale. Deux Chinois assistaient à la rédaction de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme, et ont influé sur sa rédaction. L'histoire universelle a besoin de la diversité.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview -- Part I Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China -- 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s -- 3.Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China -- 4. The Changing Role of Government in China -- 5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity -- Post-Tiananmen Art -- Part II In the Global Context -- 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ''Handover'' from the U.S.A. -- 7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) -- 8. Mao to the Market -- 9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? -- 10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China -- 11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights -- Appendix In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China -- Contributors -- Index