Congrès Marx International VI, septembre 2010, Section Philosophie, Lin Hui
Anxiety in the Growth: From the viewpoint of Contemporary Social
Structure in China
Lin Hui
School of Philosophy Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC, 200433 huilin@fudan.edu.cn
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To keen and far-sighted Chinese scholars, the subject about Chinese developmental pattern, to a great degree, had been changed from Chinese growing experience to Chinese crisis awareness in recent years, especially since the financial crisis in Western countries in 2008. The sustainable growth of
GDP, even in the Global Crisis Period, can not moderates the crisis awareness in
China. On the contrary, such growth forces various crisis awarenesses to be revealed, and most of them focus on the two sides of crisis of Chinese developmental pattern. On the one side, phenomena of the crisis, such as the problem of social justice, the gap between the rich and the poor, energy and ecological crisis, etc; on the other side, causes of the crisis, such as economic developmental pattern, the mode of governance, etc. Around this two sides of the crisis awareness, swordplays among old left, new left, right, liberalism, conservatism, universalism, nationalism and so on, had been already in full swing. This article intended to argue that all debates above-mentioned disregarded the pivotal role of contemporary social structure of China in such issue, and the social structure of contemporary China is both phenomenon and cause of the crisis. For the purpose of probing into the root of the crisis and searching for the cure to the crisis, thus, we must inspect the characteristic, the substance, and the history of changes of contemporary social structure in
China.
In the first part, I will analyze the social structure of China in the beginning period of reform(1978-1988). My viewpoint is that the comparatively not complicated social structure of China in that period exactly match up to the need of the trend of industry development. This “historic step well together” made the disadvantage of simple social struture translate into advantage in the economic development. Meanwhile, it foreshadowed crisis.
The second part will look back and inspect the social change of China from the time after the beginning period of reform to present(1992-2010). In such research, I will center on the problem of relatedness between social change and change of governance, especially on the relaedness between diversification of social stratification and marketization and technicalization.
New crisis emerged in this period, certainly, will be discussed.
In the third part, the article will investigate some new features of social structure in China in recent years. Chief of all is the interactive effect between the change of social structure in China and worldwide affairs outside China. It is such interactive effect that bring about new problems and new crisis

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The last part will discuss two main problems of present conditions of such social structure in China. First, what is the subject of such social structrue? Second, where the motive power of the change of social structure comes from? The answer of these problems will plays active role in the response to the current crisis, not only to China, but also to the world.