The Chongqing Model – Socialist Alternative or Propaganda Cliché?

Abstract

This paper examines diverging views on the Chongqing model, the policy experiment led by Bo Xilai from 2007 to 2012 that was famous for its “red songs” and the campaign against organized crime. It has impressed both the supporters of socialist identity of China and the supporters of liberal identity and led to an intense debate concerning China’s path of development. This paper attempts to discuss and clarify to what extent the Chongqing model represented a genuine socialist experiment and the implications of the model for China’s future.

Citation

Zakharzhevskaya, A. (2017), "The Chongqing Model – Socialist Alternative or Propaganda Cliché?", Return of Marxian Macro-Dynamics in East Asia (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 32), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020170000032013