China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological
openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders …

There is little doubt that China's reform can be seen as a special case in the history of
humanity, of modernization, and even in the relatively short history of economic transition. In …

Compared with the developed countries... China is still quite backward in productive forces
and technological capacity. Its economic and cultural progress is not evenly distributed. It …

The best way to understand the historical sig nificance of the sweeping reforms in China is to
view them in terms of state-society relations. 1 The reforms are reversing the past trend of an …

FOR stable heart many and of their Chinese effective vigorous leaders, government efforts
the hope has at reform, been of a at more the in-stable and effective government has been at …

This book is based on a series of reports that Cheng Li, now an associate professor of
government at Hamilton College, wrote for the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) while …

In 1978 China made a historic decision to adopt a policy of openness and reform. This
ushered in a period of rapid economic transformation and social change. After 30 years …

The achievements and shortcomings of the reform movement in China in 1985 to a large
extent influenced the country's political agenda in 1986. The promotion of a new generation …