This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989. It is designed for scholars and graduate students interested in the political economy of China's reforms.
Joseph Fewsmith is Associate Professor for International Relations at Boston University and Director of the East Asian Interdisciplinary Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1980, after which he did post-graduate work at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Califomia-Berkeley. He is the editor of Chinese Economic Studies and the author of Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China (1985).
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Introduction: Some Perspectives on the Chinese Political System; Chapter 1 The Emergence of Rural Reform; Chapter 2 The Emergence of Enterprise Reform; Chapter 3 From Reform to Readjustment; Chapter 4 Comprehensive Reform and the Emergence of Young Economists; Chapter 5 Conservative Criticism and Emerging Fissures Among Reformers; Chapter 6 The 1986 Recession and Deepening Debates Over the Course of Reform; Chapter 7 The End of the Zhaoist Era; Conclusion: Reflections on Chinese Politics in the Era of Reform;
