Carolyn L. Hsu, Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007, 225 pp.

摘要

If the long-term stability of a political system requires that its governing elite benboth respected and admired, then the bifurcation of honor into its dual com-nponents of admiration and respect represents the clearest sign of thende-mystification, and therefore the de-legitimization, of China’s social-politicalnorder. Prior to the dismantling of the Chinese work enterprise system, its pol-nitical elites were consumed by an acute anxiety over their own political survi-nval. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s it was evident to anyone living in Chinanthat the average person held its political elite in contempt. The governmentalnofficial continued to receive a qualified respect that was devoid of admiration.