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Arguing Chinese Economic Miracle Claims

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  • John Ritchie

    (Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham DH1 3LB, UK)

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Once the Chinese economy drew little inspiration. For long its true prospects did not greatly excite. Some like Max Weber considered China too backwardly custom-bound instead. Others could scarcely imagine any real economic breakthrough. Subsequent Chinese economic claims hardly dispelled these doubts. But now China stands reinvented all that might finally change. Today’s rising Chinese economic miracle claims surpass them all. Many envisage China being transformed into some global factory-cum-marketplace challenger ahead. Yet for all that certain doubts remain. Accordingly this paper deliberately reconstitutes these claims themselves. In so doing it finds the three particular modal arguments they employ are more than just accessories to rising economic facts. They rather forestructure whatever these facts are taken or supposed to be. Consequently only when such argumentation itself appears better recognised will any true basis for Chinese economic miracle claims finally become clear.

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  • John Ritchie, 1996. "Arguing Chinese Economic Miracle Claims," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 7(4), pages 277-290, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:7:y:1996:i:4:p:277-290
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