7th Cadre Schools
agricultural transformation
Ai Qing
Battlefield Nuclear Weapons
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China's agriculture
China's Defense Industries
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Defense Establishment
Chinese economic policy
Chinese polity
Combined Arms Operations
consultative authoritarian system
consultative authoritarianism
cultural liberalization
Cultural Revolution Decade
Defense Modernization
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foreign economic relations
Household Contract System
Hua Guofeng
Late Mao Years
Late Maoist
Late Maoist Era
Late Maoist Period
Mao Zedong
military modernization China
Party's Military Commission
PLA's Ability
PLA's Doctrine
Plenum Decision
post-Mao Period
post-Mao political reforms analysis
post-Mao reform
Rural Urban Income Gap
Senior PLA Officer
social equality policy
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Urban Rural Gap
Product details
- ISBN 9780367006396
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the death of Mao, China has entered a new period in its development. Turning away from the all-encompassing emphasis on revolutionary struggle and ideological transformation that characterized the last years of the Maoist era, China's leaders under Deng Xiaoping have initiated dramatic new reform and development policies. In original essays, the contributors, all senior specialists on contemporary China, analyze the reasons for the new policies, the nature and impact of the changes now occurring, and the prospects for a continuation of these policies in the future. Specifically, they examine the Chinese polity as a "consultative authoritarian" system, the farreaching changes in China's agriculture, important shifts in foreign economic relations, the gradual modernization policy pursued by its military leaders, the relaxation of controls on cultural life, and the possibility that current social policies may well increase equality rather than inequality in Chinese society. The authors conclude that it is too early to judge the eventual, long-term outcome of current reforms, which they believe grew out of the political crises and chronic economic problems that afflicted China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although they see some opposition and built-in limits to reform, on balance they foresee strong support for continued reform and believe it will be difficult for future leaders to reverse course.
