Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform

by Yu-ming Shaw

Overview

Over the past several years, Mainland China has undertaken reforms in various domestic areas, including culture and society, education, the economy, and the Communist Party. In addition, since September 1982 Peking has begun to pursue an independent course in foreign relations. In this volume, based on the Thirteenth Sino-American Conference in Tai

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429709531
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/05/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	674
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Shaw, Yu-ming

Table of Contents

Preface -- Politics in the PRC -- The Chinese-type Socialist Road: Theory and Practice -- The Nature of Chinese Communism and the Prospects for Teng’s Reforms -- Studies in the Republic of China on Communist China Affairs, 1949–1979 -- Party Rectification in Post-Mao China -- The Mousetrapping of Hong Kong: A Game in Which Nobody Wins -- Kleptocracy on Mainland China: A Social-Psychological Interpretation -- Higher Educational Charters in Mainland China -- Chinese Intellectuals and Party Policy -- Policy Implications of Population Dynamics in the PRC -- Socialist Spiritual Civilization and Cultural Pollution: The Problem of Meaning -- Economics in the PRC -- Mainland China’s Economic System: A New Model or Variations on an Old Theme? -- Mainland China’s Special Economic Zones -- Review of Studies on the Mainland Economy -- How Well Did U.S. Economists Understand Communist China’s Economy? -- Agricultural Reform in Mainland China: Problems and Prospects -- Agriculture in Mainland China: Reform and Problems -- Foreign Policy of the PRC -- The Evolution of Communist China’s Foreign Policy -- Peking, Moscow, and the Indian Subcontinent: Cards, Triangles, and Possible Rapprochement -- Paris and London: Between Washington and Beijing -- Sino-Soviet Relations and the Asian Quadrangle, 1984 -- Co-opting China: The Realization of an American Dream? -- The Washington-Moscow-Peking Triangle: An Analysis -- Interpretations of Mainland China’s Recent Foreign Policy