1st Edition

China's Transition from Socialism? Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-90

By Dorothy J. Solinger Copyright 1993
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

The essays in this volume address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured centralised command system and to introduce some market principles to stimulate economic activity. The essays fall... Read more
A collection of articles and symposia on controversial social issues, which include: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use and utility of racial/ethnic categories; multiculturalism; immigration; the underclass debate; and democracy/equality.

Biography

Solinger, Dorothy J.