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The Magic of Concepts - History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China (Hardcover)
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The Magic of Concepts - History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China (Hardcover)
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In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the
economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically
in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s and 1990s. Separated
by the Chinese Revolution and Mao's socialist experiments, each era
witnessed urgent discussions about how to think about economic
concepts derived from capitalism in modern China. Both eras were
highly cosmopolitan and each faced its own global crisis in
economic and historical philosophy: in the 1930s, capitalism's
failures suggested that socialism offered a plausible solution,
while the abandonment of socialism five decades later provoked a
rethinking of the relationship between history and the economic as
social practice. Interweaving a critical historiography of modern
China with the work of the Marxist-trained economist Wang Yanan,
Karl shows how "magical concepts" based on dehistoricized
Eurocentric and capitalist conceptions of historical activity that
purport to exist outside lived experiences have erased much of the
critical import of China's twentieth-century history. In this
volume, Karl retrieves the economic to argue for a more nuanced and
critical account of twentieth-century Chinese and global historical
practice.
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