Transforming China: Economic Reform and Its Political Implications (Studies on the Chinese Economy (Palgrave (Firm)).)

Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. With wide-ranging primary materials, including interviews, surveys and the author's own recollections of Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang, the book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses with primary sources the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform, especially multiplying socio-political problems, and the international ramifications of China's rise. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Rural Reform....Pages 9-11 Urban Reform....Pages 12-15 Macroeconomic Reform....Pages 16-19 Opening to the Outside World....Pages 20-26 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Dual Goal: Development and Transition....Pages 29-38 Soft and Hard Reforms....Pages 39-45 Dynamic Gradualism....Pages 46-53 Ideological Reorientation....Pages 54-62 Reform Leadership....Pages 63-74 The Role of the Overseas Chinese....Pages 75-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Changing Social Structure....Pages 85-97 Informal Liberalization....Pages 98-117 Shifting Values....Pages 118-131 Corruption....Pages 132-140 Regionalism....Pages 141-147 Political Reform....Pages 148-162 The Chinese Economic Area....Pages 163-172 International Implications....Pages 173-181 Conclusion....Pages 182-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-223 "This book consists of a number of papers presented to the Chinese Economic Association (UK) Annual Conferences in the late 1990s. They address many important issues in China's economy under transition." "In addition to the analyses of specific issues provided by individual papers, themes recurring in several contribute to broader theoretical, empirical and policy literatures. Some focus on the comparative literature on transition economies of China and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries; some apply new methodologies to the analysis of economic issues such as money demand, consumption behaviour and industrial structural change; while others focus on policy and institutional reforms. Most contributors are experienced China scholars from the United Kingdom, France, the United States of America as well as from China itself."--Jacket "Following the road of an autarkic and egalitarian socialism for several decades, China has implemented economic reform and open-door policies since the late 1970s. This monograph sets out to analyse and compare the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods, providing insights into national and regional economic trends. The book is importantly focuses on regional comparisons and differences within China. Based on different kinds of regionalization on the Chinese economy, the author analyses the uneven distribution of natural and human resources and probes into the evolution of economic systems and policies from which differing regional economic performances have resulted accordingly."--BOOK JACKET

Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive and perceptive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. With wide-ranging primary materials, including interviews, surveys and author's own recollections of Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang, the book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform, especially multiplying socio-political problems, and the international ramifications of China's rise.

"Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive, perceptive and engrossing examination of China's economic reform, its distinctive features and political impact for the country and beyond. Based on a wide range of primary materials, including interviews, surveys and the author's own recollections of key reformers like Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang in the mid- 1980s, the book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to economic reform, including its dual goal; soft/hard reforms; dynamic gradualism; ideological reorientation and reform leadership."--BOOK JACKET Providing an insider's examination of China's economic reform and its political implications, this text uses wide ranging primary materials, including interviews, surveys and author's own recollections of Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang. It aims to shed new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform, especially multiplying socio political problems, and the international ramifications of China's rise "This book presents a comprehensive overview and an economic analysis of China's economic reform experiences, particularly those since the late 1980s. It covers many institutional details of key aspects of the Chinese economy, including fiscal and monetary management, financial sector development, state enterprise reform, international trade, foreign investment, decentralization and regional development."--Jacket Wei-wei Zhang. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.