摘要
When the term"socialist market economy"was coined in the midst of the reform and opening-up period initiated by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping,many outsiders responded with puzzlement if not derision.American and British thinkers in particular had a hard time wrapping their heads around apparent contradiction that the term posed.For several thousand years,dialectica thinking has been one of the central features of Chinese thought,a fact that is observable in the formulation of Chinese characters
When the term "socialist market econ- omy" was coined in the midst of the reform and opening-up period initiated by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaopinpg. many outsiders responded with puzzlement if not de- rision. American and British thinkers in particular had a hard time wrapping their heads around apparent contradiction that the term posed,