China's Political Economy: The Quest For Development Since 1949 (economies Of The World)

This is a comprehensive, interpretive, economic history of China since 1949. It presents the recent dramatic changes in China's approach to economic organization and development in a historical context. Riskin attempts to make sense of the emergence of the Maoist assault on Soviet-type central planning, its accomplishments, failures, and ultimate defeat; as well as to examine in some detail the new policies that have come about in reaction to that story and to expose their inner contradictions and uncertainties. Preface Contents Abbreviations List of Tables 1. Introduction 2 China’s Pre-socialist Economy 3 State Power and the Foundations of Socialism 4 Mobilization and Social Transformation, 1952-1955 5 Socialist Transformation and Administrative Decentralization: Prelude to Late Maoism, 1955-1957 6 Ascendancy and Crisis of Late Maoism, 1958—1962 7 Counter-currents: Economic Recovery, 1962—1965 8 Economic Conflict and Cultural Revolution, 1966—1976 9 Late Maoism, I: Self-reliance 10 Late Maoism, II: Egalitarianism 11 Reassessment, 1977-1979 12 Rural Reform, 1979-1984: Dismanding the Commune 13 The Open Door: Intemadonal Economic Policy 14 Reform 15 Conclusion Bibliography Index Focuses on the Maoist approach to development and the emergence of China as an industrializing nation. Examines in detail the reforms of the post-Mao period in agriculture, foreign economic policy, industry, and trade, and analyses their impact on development performance. Both the successes and failures of reforms are explained in terms of the still sharp contradictions in China's political economy This comprehensive, interpretive economic history presents the dramatic recent changes in China's approach to economic organization and development in an historical context. Carl Riskin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [380]-401.