State Capitalist or Market Socialist? The Social Character of the People’s Republic of China

A critical part of understanding China today is understanding its social character: is it (state) capitalist or (market) socialist? What are the relevant facts? David Lane disinters the historical evolution of the term state capitalism to contest its application to China. John Ross argues China is socialist. Roland Boer builds on his Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and contests Western Marxist misrepresentations of Chinese Socialism. Professor Cheng Enfu proposes a novel gauge to measure progress towards socialism. China scholars Jenny Clegg and Mick Dunford inject their own insights. Speakers David Lane, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and currently Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham and is a visiting professor at Peking University. He has written extensively on Marxism, socialism (particularly the USSR) and post-socialism, capitalism and industrial societies, the world economy, elit