1st Edition

The Fading of the Maoist Vision City and Country in China's Development

By Rhoads Murphey Copyright 1980
192 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different... Read more
Chapter 1 Cities and the Developing World; Chapter 2 China's Urban and Anti-urban Past; Chapter 3 Controlling and Dispersing Urban Growth; Chapter 4 Walking on Two Legs; Chapter 5 Planning for a New Urban China; Chapter 6 Tensions; Chapter 7 China's Development Effort in Comparative Context; Chapter 8 Some Conclusions, and the Future;

Biography

Authored by Murphey, Rhoads