Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation. Edited by Scott Kennedy
Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation. Edited by Scott Kennedy. Stanford University Press 2011. ISBN: 9780804769570; 9780804769587; 0804769575; 0804769583. This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China’s capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of the country’s distinctiveness due to its grand size and long history. The moniker Middle Kingdom, a direct translation of the Chinese-language word for China, is one of the most prominent symbols of the…