China's Economic Reform: A Study with Documents

by Robert F. Ash (Editor), Christopher Howe (Editor), Y Y Kueh (Editor)

This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy documents, newly translated into English, from a key period of Chinese development, providing both a current and a retrospective analysis of China's economic reform efforts. Topics dealt with include the evolution of Chinese economic strategy; economic planning and the spread of market mechanisms; technology transfer in industry; evolution of an agricultural system; the development of population policy; and foreign economic relations. The collection will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Chinese studies, but also to professionals and social scientists concerned with China but unable to read source documents in Chinese.

420 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2002

About the author

Robert F. Ash BA MSc (Econ) PhD (London)

Professor of Economics with reference to China and Taiwan at the SOAS China Institute & Founder of the Centre of Taiwan Studies.

Ash's current research focuses on economic and social development in China (food security, rural development, population and migration, employment, consumption and living standards), and agricultural development in post-1949 Taiwan.