As China's reforms take root, citizens are allowed, even encouraged, to be socialist and
profit-driven at the same time. This book examines this precarious dyad, demonstrating what …

The question of reform has dominated China's political agenda throughout the 1980s.
Differences about the scale, extent and nature of the reforms have been major topics of …

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 …

The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of
modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in …

Economic growth in China has transformed both politics and society. Old orthodoxies are
painfully being eroded in the drive for reform while new social and cultural tensions are …

The present paper will focus on the evolution of economic and political reform in the post-
Mao era. It will be argued that although economic reforms were being introduced and …

Abstract Hart-Landsberg and Burkett focus on the main domestic contradictions of China's
reform process. They show that the considerable costs of the pro-market transition are not …

Since China transitioned from a state-socialist economy into a market-driven one in 1978,
the country's labor policies have witnessed characteristic changes over the past four …

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 …