The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform : the Road to Crisis: Asia and the Pacific: Asia and the Pacific

by White; Jay D

• ISBN13: 9780873328531
• ISBN10: 0873328531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book seeks to assess the impact of the post-Mao market-oriented reforms on the Chinese state and its relations with society and the economy. It investigates the political and social consequences of an economic strategy which aims to introduce markets into a centrally-planned socialist economy of the Soviet type and investigates what changes have actually occurred in the organisational and political character of the Chinese state, the nature and scope of political participation, the managerial relationships between state agencies and productive enterprises and the nature of Chinese social structure and social attitudes. The book is a valuable source for those who wish to understand the complex and deep-rooted causes of the tragic events in Beijing in June 1989.

Table of Contents

John Gardner, 1939-88	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
The Road to Crisis: the Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform	p. 1
Central Planning and Local Participation Under Mao: The Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants	p. 22
Macroeconomic Management and System Reform in China	p. 50
The Changing Role of the State in Chinese Agriculture	p. 83
A Soviet Specialist's View of the Chinese Economic Reforms	p. 103
The Impact of the Open Door Policy on the Chinese State	p. 119
Politics and the National State	p. 146
Much Ado About Nothing: Party Reform in the 1980s	p. 148
A Janus-Faced Army? the Military and Reform Policies in the Prc	p. 175
The Law, the State and Economic Reform	p. 190
Basic-Level Local Government and Economic Reform in Urban China	p. 214
Political Institutionalisation at the Basic Level of Government and Below in China	p. 243
Development State, Entrepreneurial State: The Political Economy of Socialist Reform in Xinju Municipality and Guanghan County	p. 265
The State and the Single-Child Policy	p. 294
Privatisation and Politics in Rural China	p. 318
Index	p. 341
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