ORCID Profile
0000-0001-9255-0613
Current Organisations
University of Bologna
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Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2015
Abstract: The article examines the distinctive features of Chinese financialization. It argues that in China “mass financialization” was strategically led by a state effort to compensate for the social outcomes that resulted when the communist model of collective work units (danwei) was dismantled subsequent to the opening economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping. Since the opening of the stock exchanges in Shenzhen (1990) and Shanghai (1992), a wave of “stock fever” (gupiaore) has swept the population. The article shows how the Chinese stock market offers a chance for further enrichment in the context of a shrinking welfare state and increasing in idualization of society, while also functioning as a social space where in idual investors can regroup in an ersatz of community belonging. Focusing on the disaggregated subjectivities left behind by the state-driven dismantling of the danwei, particularly the sanhu (literally “scattered investors”) as one of the most emblematic actors to have emerged during the whole process, the article provides an account of the current phase of Chinese mass financialization. It argues that this set of state interventions succeeded in strengthening the “myths of origin” of the contemporary Chinese regime financialization acted as the ground upon which government slogans such as “To enrich is glorious,” “Richness is within range,” and “Dream a Chinese dream” were subsequently formulated.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-12-2021
Publisher: Brill
Date: 19-12-2019
DOI: 10.1163/1569206X-00001796
Abstract: The paper investigates the distinctly Chinese intertwining of expertise and state & financial capital to enrich the current understanding of neoliberalism as a hegemonic governing rationale. Since the summer of 2015, China has been experiencing one of its most severe financial crises since the adoption of a ‘socialist market economy’ in 1978. However, globally circulating narratives have failed to look beyond a Western-centric corollary, rehashing a critique of the Chinese one-party system and its lack of a ‘genuine’ free market. By exploring the specific genealogy of Chinese capitalism, and the distinctive Chinese financial-market structure, the article will show how the scientific authority of experts formulated amongst neoliberal thinkers never permeated the Chinese idea of knowledge. In the Chinese variety of financial capitalism, expertise is seen to lie not so much in the wisdom of in idual experts as in their socio-political support, which legitimises their economic interventions.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-04-2020
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
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