The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms write by Merle Goldman. This book was released on 1999. The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China's unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China's population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyze the contradictory impact of China's economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance for China than all the revolutionary movements that have convulsed it through most of the twentieth century.
The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms
The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms write by Tang Tsou. This book was released on 1986. The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tsou, one of the country's senior and most widely respected China scholars, has for more than a generation been producing timely and deeply informed essays on Chinese politics as it develops. Eight of these (from a wide variety of sources) are gathered here with a substantial new introduction. Tsou considers events not simply from the point of view of a widely read political scientist (even political philosopher) and a concerned Chinese, but also in the light of history, the dynamics of Marxism-Leninism, individual personalities, and humane realism."—Charles W. Hayford, Library Journal
China Joins the World
China Joins the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China Joins the World write by Elizabeth Economy. This book was released on 1999. China Joins the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each chapter in this volume explores the record of Chinese participation in a specific international issue area. These in-depth and timely studies reveal considerable success--more than most forecasts expected--but the road ahead may prove tougher than the terrain already covered.
Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China
Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China write by Merle Goldman. This book was released on 1994. Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When they found their efforts had produced negligible results, they tried to introduce new institutions such as a free press, a legislature with real power, the rule of law, and truly competitive elections.
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform write by Frederick C. Teiwes. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature: 1) a power/policy struggle between Hua Guofeng’s alleged neo-Maoists and Deng Xiaoping’s reform coalition; 2) the power of the peasants; and 3) the leading role of provincial reformers. The first has no validity, while second and third must be viewed through more complex lenses. This study provides a new interpretation challenging conventional wisdom. Its key finding is that a game changer emerged in spring 1980 at the time Deng replaced Hua as CCP leader, but the significant change in policy was not a product of any clash between these two leaders. Instead, Deng endorsed Zhao Ziyang’s policy initiative that shifted emphasis away from Hua’s pro-peasant policy of increased resources to the countryside, to a pro-state policy that reduced the rural burden on national coffers. To replace the financial resources, policy measures including household farming were implemented with considerable provincial variations. The major unexpected production increases in 1982 confirmed the arrival of decollectivization as the template on the ground. The dynamics of this policy change has never been adequately explained. Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform offers a deep empirical study of critical developments involving politics from the highest levels in Beijing to China’s villages, and in the process challenges many broader accepted interpretations of the politics of reform. It is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese political history.
