The Third Phase: Self-criticism

Pervez Tahir ()

Chapter 5 in Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, 2019, pp 119-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Joan Robinson had the time to rethink her thoughts on China in the light of greater information. She admitted that she had no special knowledge of China. During her visits, she was dependent on interpreters and the preferences of those showing her around. However, she thought it was her duty to balance the hostile view of China spread in the world by the China-watchers. What happened during the decade beginning 1966 was described as “a medieval drama of ambition and treachery”. On the whole, Joan Robinson was able to accept the major part of the post-Mao reform because she had had no serious problems with the rightist economic policies and management even in the past. The problem was not so much with the capitalist road as with Confucian respect for hierarchy. As the two were considered one in the cultural revolution and violently attacked, the self-criticism seems incomplete.

Keywords: China-watchers; Confucious; De-collectivisation; Incentives wages; Socialist morality; Rightist development strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28825-9_5

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