What initially seemed to be a period of ascendancy for China's groping reform movement
has turned out to be one more year on an economic roller coaster. To be sure, scarcely two …

Chairman Mao has been officially laid to rest, and the process of leadership transition begun
at his death in 1976 appears to be largely completed. The Central Committee of the Chinese …

Abstract The Rectification Campaign of 1957 prompted a vibrant debate about Chinese
socialism. This debate contained three analytically distinct perspectives on the intellectual …

Results of the previous “three major transformations” of socialism fueled Mao Zedong's
ambitions to further intensify socialist reconstruction in China, hoping to overtake the UK and …

During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic
changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the …

China's approach towards post-Stalinist reform contrasts markedly with that of most other
former centrally planned economies (CPEs). Eastern Europe and Russia tried to move …

In W estem democratic countries, people act on the basis of a well-established law which
sanctions the interests of private economic subjects, because the nation-wide validity of their …

The Soviet model is the only version of socialism that gave birth to an alternative
socioeconomic system to that of capitalism. 1 After its development in the Soviet Union in the …

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the revolutionary history of China, from the early
20th century to the present era of crisis, aided by a wealth of research which cuts across the …

During 1962 the Chinese people continued their uphill quest for a higher standard of living
amidst unresolved difficulties of the Commnunist regime. The difficulties were openly …