Reforming the Revolution: China in Transition

by Robert Benewick, Paul Wingrove

A guide to China since the death of Mao Zedong, explaining and assessing the political conficts and developments of the post-Mao era and the dramatic economic transformations launched by the new leadership. International relations, education, health and literary revival are also considered.

Contents:
China in the 1980s, R. Benewick & P. Wingrove;
The politics of transition, J. Gardner;
Reform of China's political system, T. Saich;
Political participation, R. Benewick;
Political reform, the student demonstrations and the Conservative backlash, R. Munro;
The new economic paradigm, towards market socialism, G. White;
The reorganization of the countryside, M. Blecher;
The urban economy, M. Lockett;
Technology and economic development, R. Conroy;
Opening up to the outside world, T. Cannon;
The household, the family and the reforms, E. Croll;
Health and medicine in the 1980s, S. Hillier;
Educational reforms - quality, access and equity, K. Lewin;
Literature in the post-Mao years, A. Wedell-Wedellsborg;
China and the Superpowers, G. Segal;
China and the regional powers, P. Wingrove.

356 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988