Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng, entered the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revo...

The far-reaching institutional change and societal transformation occurring in former state-socialist societies have attracted new social science interest in transition economies. This chapter reviews recent research on China, highlighting the theoretical arguments and findings of general interest to social scientists. The paper argues that a paradigm shift is taking place within research on Ch...

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Abstract Should the regulation of production and distribution in a socialist society be based on law value? In this article we ask (1) Is question not an ontological understanding labour, rational therefore conceptual abstract labour and, ultimately, transhistorical value so-called ‘law value’?; (2) is it precisely deception power fetishism commodities that, by eternalising value’, limits horiz...