CHINA AND THE 21ST CENTURY CRISIS

Book ID/图书代码： 10953015B85679

English Summary/英文概要： The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash. But will this be the case the next time the system goes into shock? By looking at the big questions of class struggle, global economic imbalances, peak oil, climate change and political power play, Minqi Li argues that by the time of the next crisis, China will be at the epicentre of these contradictions.

Unlike previous books, China and the 21st Century Crisis analyses how the political and economic imbalances in China will exacerbate system collapse, and how this could happen much sooner than we imagine, possibly within a decade. Li writes from a Marxist and ecological perspective, and points out that the limits to capital are fast approaching.

China is the last large region (and source of cheap labour) into which capital could expand: the system is at its limits. By combining this argument with issues surrounding the planet’s ecological limits and the internal politics of the Chinese Communist Party, Li commands a narrative of China at a pivotal, and possibly apocalyptic stage.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 很多人认为美国是近来经济奔溃中受创最严重的国家。但下一次经济震荡的时候还会是这样吗？本书通过分析阶级斗争、全球经济失衡、石油峰值、气候变化和政治权力等等重大问题提出：下一次经济危机时，中国将成为这些矛盾的中心。

本书不同于以往的书籍，分析了中国的政治和经济失衡将如何加剧系统崩溃，以及这些失衡的发展其实比我们想象中更快，最终的崩盘可能在十年之内就会发生。本书作者以马克思主义和生态观的角度指出，对资本的限制即将开始。

中国是最后一块资本得以大发展的区域（同时也是廉价劳动力的来源地）：但这样的运转体系马上就要达到极限了。通过地球的生态限制和中国共产党内部的政治问题，作者佐证了自己的这一观点，并提出中国正处在一个关键的、可能带来灾难性后果的阶段。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：对于任何试图了解全球资本主义运作的人而言，本书必不可少。作者笔触清晰、简洁，解释了中国经济动态对于维持当代全球资本主义稳定的重要性，以及为什么中国的资本主义受到新兴阶级以及生态矛盾破坏意味着我们正接近新一段可能持续的全球危机时期。中国亟待体系变革。《Martin Hart-Landsberg，俄勒冈州波特兰市Lewis and Clark College经济学教授》

目前，全世界都在思考中国经济的不可持续，并开始认识到中国正日益成为我们这个时代的危机中心。本书正是探讨了这个话题。不仅如此，本书还通过比大部分经济分析更宽广的视角，分析了经济和生态危机的关联。本书是重要的、及时的、而且必然会具有很大影响力的书籍。《Jogn Bellamy Foster，俄勒冈大学社会学教授、Monthly Review编辑，曾与Robert W. McChesney合著The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China》

This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the workings of global capitalism. In a clear and concise fashion Minqi Li explains the importance of Chinese economic dynamics to contemporary global capitalist stability and why the growing class and ecological contradictions undermining Chinese capitalism likely means we are heading into a new period of sustained global crisis. The need for system change has never been clearer. (Martin Hart-Landsberg, Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon)

At the moment that the whole world is suddenly wondering about the unsustainability of the Chinese economy and beginning to recognise that China is increasingly at the centre of the crisis of our times, Minqi Li has produced a book that argues exactly that. Moreover, he does so with a breadth that goes beyond most economic analyses, encompassing the interconnected economic and ecological crises of our time. China and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis is an important, timely, and bound to be influential work. (John Bellamy Foster, Profesor of Sociology, University of Oregon, editor of Monthly Review, and coauthor (with Robert W. McChesney) of The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China)

About the Author/作者介绍： 李民骐在美国犹他大学教授经济学，也在加拿大约克大学教授政治学。他曾著《中国的崛起和资本主义世界经济》（Pluto出版社，2008年）。他原本信仰自由市场，后追随马克思主义，曾于1990年至1992年因政治问题入狱。

Minqi Li teaches economics at University of Utah and has also taught political science at York University, Canada. He is author of The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy (Pluto Press, 2008). He turned from an advocate of free market principles into a Marxist and was a political prisoner in China between 1990 and 1992.

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