Китай като общество на рисковете на системния преход: постсоциалистическият преход и неговите рискови компоненти
China as a System Transition Risk Society: Post-Socialist Transition and Its Risk Components

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes contemporary China as a complex risk society in which social, economic, and ecological risk syndromes pertaining to highly diverse levels and systems of development are manifested simultaneously. In particular, due to its so-called gradual approach to system reform, China is beset with a complicated mix of socialist and post-socialist (marketized) syndromes of risks. Gradual reform is in practice a sort of peripatetic pluralism in economic and social reform for maximizing developmental utilities of all types of human, material, and institutional resources. This policy line is inevitably accompanied by similarly plural sources and factors for social, economic, and ecological risks. The unprecedented temporal and systemic complexity in China’s risk structure has crucial implications for the country’s much deplored tendency for inequalities. In particular, class inequalities and regional disparities seem to be manifested in risk dimensions no less critically than in material dimensions. The state’s developmentalism alone is no solution to risk inequalities or risk complexities.

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