China has been in the throes of an economic riptide. A reform-minded leadership,
attempting to reverse the direction of two decades is promoting an economic system quite …

The beginning of the 1980s found China in the throes of an economic riptide.* A reform-
minded leadership, attempting to reverse the direction of two decades, was promoting an …

The death of Mao Tse-tung and the ensuing arrest and political demise of the radical" Gang
of Four" presaged seminal changes in China's economic policies. Determined to recoup the …

This article attempts to provide explanations and arguments to posit that Maoist socialism
was a great leap forward in terms of its objectives and overall achievements despite heavy …

The economic reforms that have been introduced in China since 1979 have been well
studied by Western scholars, but the outside world has paid less attention to important …

In 1949, when the new republic was founded, China was a poor and weak agricultural
country. Thanks to Mao Zedong and his comrades who were, at the very beginning of the …

This paper reviews general developments in the economic and political situation of post-
Mao China; in particular, it focuses on the weaknesses of economic institutions in that …

China's growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to become the world's second
largest economy and potentially the largest in the following years. This book examines …

This paper attempts a character study of China's economic system under Mao to uncover
changes and continuities between Mao's economy and post-Mao Chinese economic …

CHINA emerging. The post-Mao leadership has repudiated excessive emphasis on the
primary importance of politics and ideology, revolution, class struggle, egalitarianism …