This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) examines how the Global South can build a New Development Theory grounded in its own practice. The articles explore the failures of neoliberalism, China’s role in electrification and industrial cooperation in the Global South, and intellectual debates in Southern economic thought.
An intellectual biography of Taiwanese economist Liu Shinkei reveals how Japanese Marxist debates shaped his analysis of post-war economic development and his enduring search for an endogenous theory of modernisation rooted in national experience. Read More