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Html. 44 boundary 2 / Summer 2008 Unemployment Insurance In 1986, in order to implement the Labor Contract System and the Bankruptcy Law (bochanfa), the State Council issued the Provisional Regulations on Unemployment Insurance for Employees of State-Owned Enterprises (guoying qiye zhigong daiye baoxian zhanxing guiding), which established unemployment insurance in China. In 1993, in order to implement the Regulations on Transforming the Management of State-Owned Enterprises, the State Council issued the Regulations on Unemployment Insurance for Employees of State-Owned Enterprises (guoying qiye zhigong daiye baoxian guiding).
However, in terms of the economic foundation and the speed, depth, and scope of the social structure’s transformation, no other era can be compared to the last two decades or so. During the SelfStrengthening Movement (1860–1890), “the Western influence spreading from the East” (xixue dongjian) started on the east coast; the countryside in the central and western regions was not touched. In the early twentieth century, the Western economy invaded China. It destroyed the craft industry along the coast area, but the traditional agricultural economy and the village structure—clans—were not greatly affected.
For many of those of whom we could loosely say are on the left in China, such as Cao and Wen, this reflection on modern Chinese history has been brought into conversation with world-systems analysis, which has become an increasingly popular weapon in the critique of Chinese liberal ideology as an abstract universalism. The Maoist influence on world-systems analysis concerning delinking should be noted as well. Along with the influence of world-systems theory, the New Left in China is also deeply Polanyian.