Twenty-five years ago, in a celebrated rebuttal to various theories of 4'convergence" then in
vogue, Zbigniew Brzeziński and Samuel Huntington argued that neither technological …

China's post-Mao economic reform is an intensely studied subject among scholars of
Chinese politics. With China turning increasingly capitalist, the issue that consumes …

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy
and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of …

Since the late 1970s China has undergone a fundamental transformation from a centrally
planned economy based on public ownership to a market-oriented, increasingly private …

Feng Chen's new book, the latest in the political-economy-of-China genre, as sesses the
impact of China's current economic reforms on the political future of the Chinese Communist …

China's transition away from Maoist Communism has now been unfolding before our eyes
for more than 15 years. Especially in the context of so many seemingly similar transitions …

In this chapter I examine China's political economy since the 1949 revolution from a state
capitalist perspective–that is, Mao Zedong's avowed modelling of China on the state-owned …

This article attempts to provide explanations and arguments to posit that Maoist socialism
was a great leap forward in terms of its objectives and overall achievements despite heavy …

The book is a scholarly attempt to place the post-Mao reforms in China in the context of
developments in the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries. The essays, written …

Since the late 1970s the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of a group that we
will describe as the “pragmatists,” has embarked on a course of economic reform designed …