China Socialist or Lost? The Quest for a Left Perspective on Development Strategy

• Main Authors: Jung Chuang, 莊容
• Other Authors: Chih- Yu Shih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23804068413037641899

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 102 === This thesis aims to explore two American China study scholars, Mark Selden and Carl Riskin. In the beginning of Selden’s academic career, he was interested in anti war and anti-imperialism. Because of these two concepts, he found that the communist China was quite interesting in the late 1950s, and also decided to devote himself into China study. Because of Selden’s hard work, he was invited to visit China as a scholar in the early 1970s. And after that he put lots of his effort on Chinese countryside and village; unlike Selden, Riskin found himself get attracted into China because of the social experiments, the Great Leap Forward for instance, that took place in China. That is to say, Riskin was quite interested in how those social experiments would influence to this developing socialism country. Because a lot of information which was hidden before was revealed after the Reform, therefore, Selden and Riskins’ view toward China were also changed a lot after that. After studying Selden and Riskins’ work and also analyzing their interview data, the author found that both of their studies focus on the inequality and poverty issues in China. So study and compare their studies could be good way to understand how the left side scholars would change after the China Reform; moreover, the studies might have a chance to point out the future for the Socialism.