After thirty-five years of successful reforms first launched by Deng Xiaoping and his
colleagues at the famous Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee in December …

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 …

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China's economy has experienced spectacular
growth. Today China has grown to be the world's seventh largest economy? or the world's …

In the mid-1970s, Chinese state and society was trying to come to terms with the enormous
upheavals created by the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong in 1966. The …

'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and
striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic …

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 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 …

This book consists of papers presented at the International Conference on OC China: The
Next DecadeOCO, organized by the East Asian Institute at the National University of …

In 1976, at the death of its longtime leader Mao Zedong, China was in a state of economic
stagnation and social chaos. Mao's radical policies and continual political campaigns …

In December 2018, it will be 40 years since Deng Xiaoping kicked off China's reforms with
his famous speech calling on citizens to 'Emancipate the mind, seek the truth from facts and …