Managed Chaos

Preface
Mixed Feelings
Conflicting Views on China's Development
Double Digit Growth?
'Friction-free' Growth?
'Cadre' Capitalism
Why Purely Economic Remedies Have Not Worked
An Ancient Struggle in a New Guise
Recession and the Birth of Class Conflict
The Emergence of a Predatory State
Retaining the Mandate of Heaven
The Challenge Ahead
Notes
References
Index

Prem Shankar Jha has taught as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Nuffi eld College, Oxford, 1976-77; Visiting Fellow of the Centre for International Studies, Harvard University 1995, and of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, 2006-07. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (Government department) from 1997 to 2000.



Prem Shankar Jha did an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford, UK in 1961. After working for fi ve years for the United Nations Development Programme, in New York, Damascus and Syria, he returned to India to pursue a career in journalism. He has been the Editor of The Economic Times, The Financial Express, and Delhi's main paper, The Hindustan Times. He was Economic Editor of the Times of India from 1981 to 1986.



In 1990, he was the Information Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, V. P. Singh. Currently, he is a columnist for Outlook; The Hindustan Times, The Deccan Herald and Dainik Bhaskar (Hindi). He is a prolifi c author with many books to his right: India: A Political Economy of Stagnation (1980); In the Eye of the Cyclone: The Crisis in Indian Democracy (1993); A Jobless Future: Political Causes of Economic Crisis (India) (2002); The Perilous Road to the Market: A Political Economy of Reform in Russia, India and China (2002); Kashmir 1947- The Origins of a Dispute (2003). His most recent book, The Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation Chaos and War was published in 2006, by Pluto Press, London, Sage Publications, India and the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour, Michigan, US.

I would definitely recommend that you pick up a copy of Jha's book. Brilliantly researched, it delves deep into both: the country's economic narrative that helped China sustain a near 10 percent growth rate for more than three decades and the political narrative that China is an increasingly fragile state that remains wrapped in what economists say is nothing but an incomplete transition from a totalitarian to a democratic market economy.