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 …

Maoism, Titoism and Stalinism are shorthand terms for the three broad notions which have
legitimated the policies of the socialist transition in the People's Republic of China. This …

Communist China, like many of the emerging countries today, is a nation whose leadership
is bent upon the self-concious engineering of economic, social, and political development. A …

For all its ostensible novelty and uniqueness, Communist China's Great Leap Forward of
1957-60 may best be understood as a convergence of two inveterate strands of Communist …

For far too long both China specialists and those engaged in research on problems of
economic development have treated China's experience as a special case. One of the major …

THE DEATH OF Mao Tse-tung in September 1976 marked not only the passing of the
dominant figure of modern Chinese history but also symbolized the passing of a whole …

EDITORS'NOTE: October 1, 1969, marked the 20th anniversary of Communist rule in China.
In contrast to the first decade of the Maoist regime, which saw the successful consolidation of …

The period which has elapsed since the publication of this book seems so immense that it is
almost impossible to recapture the atmosphere which prevailed at the time of its writing. A …

After a decade in power, the Chinese Communists have had enough time to change the past
as well as the present. Voluminous documentary collections, monographs, and general …