China at Forty: Mid-Life Crisis?

by David S.G. Goodman

Providing a comprehensive assessment, by experts, of the world's largest communist state in the throes of major reform, this study presents essays that range over the whole spectrum of Chinese life in the late 1980s and discuss the country's social fabric, leadership, intellectual freedom,
armed forces, foreign policy, economic management, and the future of socialism. Contributors include Gerald Segal, Anita Chan, Terrell Carver, Max Boisot, Marc Blecher, Lawrence P. Sullivan, Michele Ledic, Lee Lai To, and Harlan Jencks.

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First published November 9, 1989

About the author

David Stephen Gordon Goodman is Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is also Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China; and Emeritus Professor in the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney. Prof Goodman is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.