The best way to understand the historical sig nificance of the sweeping reforms in China is to
view them in terms of state-society relations. 1 The reforms are reversing the past trend of an …

China's leaders since the death of Mao Zedong have tried to reform the political system so
as to reduce the level of political coercion, increase the use of rational/legal processes, put …

Page 1 State and Society in China The Consequences of Reform Edited by Arthur Lewis
Rosenbaum ROUTLEDGE Page 2 State and Society in China Page 3 State and Society in China …

Whether China will undertake political reform, which is broadly defined here as institutional
changes that rationalize bureaucracy, strengthen the rule of law, expand political …

Why did reform in China and the former Soviet Union produce drastically different
outcomes? Why did some provinces in China embrace faster economic reform than others …

This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in
post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that …

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 …

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IN THE EIGHT YEARS since Mao's death, political trends in China have been bewilderingly
complex, marked on the one hand by unprecedentedly vigorous efforts at renewal and …

Reform of the political system has been on the agenda throughout the 1980s. By the middle
of the decade a broad-based consensus had emerged on the need to undertake limited …