During the last 30 years, China has been experiencing rapid economic and social
transformations. The reform introduced in 1978 was based on the rejection of Mao Zedong's …

Since the late 1970s, there have been lively and intellectually rigorous debates on the
reform and opening up policy in China. Ma Licheng, a well-known liberal journalist in China …

Emerging at first as a narrow intellectual critique in the mid-1990s, the New Left soon grew
wings as it merged with supporters of populism, statism, and nationalism. The “Chinese New …

China today is dominated by a single issue: the fate of the reform program that is being
undertaken under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Every since Deng's consolidation of …

CHINA emerging. The post-Mao leadership has repudiated excessive emphasis on the
primary importance of politics and ideology, revolution, class struggle, egalitarianism …

What is the logic of the reforms China has undertaken since 1978? Based upon a systemic
perspective integrating economy, polity and society, this study first of all explains the reforms …

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 …

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 …

WHILE THE PRECISE starting point of China's reforms is rather difficult to pinpoint, a series
of crucial events—ranging from the famous 3rd Plenum in 1978 and 5th Plenum in 1980, to …

On 1 October 2009, China's top political leaders presided over the lavish ceremony
celebrating the 60th anniversary of communist rule. On that day, on top of Tiananmen …