The China Research Center Annual Lecture 2014
Presented by Professor Martin K. Whyte John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Harvard University
“The Paradox of Communists Effectively Promoting Capitalism”
Professor Whyte places Chinese attitudes towards inequality in comparative perspective, both with other post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and selected capitalist countries. Using comparisons of modal responses from three China surveys and surveys from selected East European and advanced capitalist countries, Professor Whyte considers possible reasons why the average Chinese citizen in all of his surveys has more positive attitudes toward current inequalities than the citizens of the comparison countries.
This event is co-sponsored with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.