[lbo-talk] steve philion - Han Deqiang - "economics of competition"

[Michael Pugliese]

China Study Group is a New York based non-profit organization formed in 
1995 to facilitate networking of scholars/activists, and promote 
dissemination of info and research works, with a view to providing 
alternative perspectives and assessments on issues pertaining to China - 
both its revolutionary past and today's China in the context of 
globalization. Members of the CSG support the broad goals of the Chinese 
revolution that triumphed in 1949, and seek to stimulate knowledge and 
debate regarding its achievements and limitations, as well as to offer a 
critical perspective of the radical changes that have occurred in China 
over the past 25 years and an ongoing analysis of its role in the world 
today.

To this end, since its founding in 1995, the CSG has regularly organized 
public forums/conferences, its past activities including sponsoring panel 
discussions at the annual Socialists Scholars' Conference in NYC, co- 
sponsoring with Monthly Review a two-day symposium, entitled, "Cultural 
Revolution Revisited", and co-sponsoring with Monthly Review and the East 
Asian Institute of Columbia University, a day-long conference, entitled 
Understanding China's Revolution: A Celebration Of The Lifework of William 
Hinton. CSG has also been circulating manuscripts and papers it has 
received among its associates, with one manuscript published in book form, 
entitled Manufacturing History: Sex, Lies and Random House's Memoirs of 
Mao's Physician. In addition to continuing the above-mentioned areas of 
work, CSG has decided to begin the dissemination of information and 
research works via the internet by starting our own website: 
www.chinastudygroup.org.

With the launching of this website, CSG seeks to promote info/research 
interests in major issues which are crucial for the current struggles over 
China's future, and, in particular, those pertaining to the following 
interrelated areas:
Understanding China's revolution
Today's China in the context of globalization
China's looming social crises
China labor study and support US-China relations

CSG remains convinced that by providing a forum for alternative 
perspectives, it will not only contribute to greater transparency and 
democracy, and better understanding of China's past and current 
developments, but also help lend credence to the belief that another world 
is possible.

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Michael Pugliese