Kinijos modernizacijos keliai ir klystkeliai: integrali plėtra
Proper And Mistaken Paths Of China’s Modernization : Integral Development

Summary/Abstract: The article comparatively analyzes the development of China, one of the most important states in the world, by focusing on the research of various modernization projects employed there. The author examines the main differences of each one of the development stages framing the last one a half hundred years of Chinese history. Comparing various strategies of economic, social, and political development during that period, as well as their links with Western and Chinese cultural traditions, the author theoretically defends the attitude, that China has experienced four qualitatively different modernization stages, only the last of which could be called a successful one. The article also highlights the principal causes of this success by justifying the hypothesis that it has been a result of complex incremental process. Attention is given not only to the research of the qualitative and quantitative features of these stages, but also to the objective assessment of their effects on the actual Chinese economic boom. The article defends the view, that the principal cause of the quite evident success of the actual post-M aoist development stage was the capacity of the governing elite to account huge potential of the Chinese cultural tradition, properly apply rich experience of the anterior projects of modernization, and finally achieve a subtle harmony between local culture in its contemporary Neo-Confucianist form and modern economic development.

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