INCORPORATION TO MODERN WORLD SYSTEM CASE STUDY: CHINA

This article is organized to analyze concept of incorporation and China as a case study through inquiring how the process of integration of China to the Modern World System- Capitalist World Economy occured. Firstly theoretical basis is tried to be emphasized and then following the subject of China’s brief historical bacground, it is examined the main characteristics and some statistics of China’s economic change before concluding remarks. Those who reads this work will be able to find general information about the Capitalist World Economy, Incorporation concept and China’s place in this structure. There is a wide range of literature on the history and economic power of China, and all these resources have helped a lot to analyze this work. China's increasingly massive economic share shows that the world system needs to be questioned and some analysis is needed. In this study, it is analyzed whether there is an overlap between China's ideological identity and its place in the world system (claimed) and the integration process