The Great Socialist Transformation: Capitalism without Democracy in China

UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Kellee Tsai on the structural impact Chinese entrepreneurs have on Chinese politics.

Kellee Tsai, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Lorentzen, Discussant. Political Science, UC Berkeley

The stunning expansion of China’s private sector growth has led observers to assume that its growing ranks of capitalists represent a force for democratization.  Tsai’s research in ten provinces finds little evidence for this belief, but shows that private entrepreneurs have nonetheless had a structural impact on Chinese politics through a variety of “adaptive informal institutions.”