This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding
chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how" liberalization" allows state enterprises to …

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

China has been experiencing a dynamic process of economic reform and social
modernisation for more than 25 years now. For those who follow the country's transformation …

Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post‐Mao China, by Gordon White.
Macmillan, London, 1993. xiii+ 286 pp.£ 35 hardback,£ 19.99 paperback. ISBN 0–333 …

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 …

This article examines the future of socialism in China. China is not socialist today, nor are its
reforms likely to bring about socialism. Indeed, China has been “reforming” for over two …

Everyone knows that things are changing in China, and that they have been changing for
some time: ever since Mao went to join Marx, to use his own expression, in September 1976 …

The demise of state socialism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and
early 1990s left China the most notable member of a dwindling cohort of Communist Party …

The year 1989 in China marked the defeat of a group of reformists in the Communist Party
leadership and shattered widespread expectations of continuing broad liberalization. In …

Yan Sun's examination of the debate within China over socialist thought from 1976 to 1992
is quite simply the most important book to be published on Chinese politics and the political …