This book series collects, organizes and presents the master pieces in contemporary China
studies. Titles in this series include those by Chinese authors who studied and worked …

A planned economy system was set up in China after the establishment of the PRC in 1949,
and its reform was launched in 1978. The reform has gone on for 20 years and has achieved …

China is approaching a series of turning points on its path of dramatic national
transformation. After more than three decades of successful reforms, the nation has reached …

A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it
back. The Chinese dynastic state's blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine …

THERE IS AN evolving consensus among those who study international relations after the
Cold War that we are entering a period of regionalization of the international system—a shift …

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a
percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman …

One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People's Republic of China
about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The …

When Deng Xiaoping assumed the mantle of political power in 1978, he set in motion
reforms that significantly changed China. Maoist China had been communist, totalitarian …

Communist China used to be the object of the most contradictory judgements. The quest for
food security, through the use of institutional mechanisms for equalizing consumption or …