During the Cold War era, China was generally seen by the Left in the West as a model of
revolutionary socialism. The Left was especially attracted to the Maoist policies of public …

During the cold war era, China was generally seen by the Left in the West as a model of
revolutionary socialism. The Left was especially attracted to the Maoist policies of public …

Suppose you could travel through time to Maoist China in the mid-1970s, and you told the
Chinese that their country would soon become an economic powerhouse of the capitalist …

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just
forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to …

It is a widely-held belief that the growth of material wealth yields increasing social
tranquillity, but studies of modernization have long revealed that certain stages of economic …

Although the Chinese miracle is a phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s, there has been
enormous interest in the Chinese model of development for many years. Indeed, in the …

The political-economic evolution of post-Mao China has been portrayed as a historically
inevitable embrace of neoliberalism; as an exemplification of the East Asian developmental …

Since China began to implement the reform and opening-up policies in 1978, its
development and reform have centred on two T-changes, namely the transition of economic …

China's dramatic economic transformation can only be understood in relation to her modern
history. David Pyle reviews the post-1978 reform process in the context of two centuries of …

If we analyse the first 15 years of Soviet Russia, we see three social experiments. The first
experiment, based on the equal distribution of poverty, suggests the “universal asceticism” …