1st Edition

The Reform Decade in China From Hope to Dismay

Edited By Marta Dassù, Tony Saich Copyright 1992
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a head in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were the result of a profound crisis in the reform programme launched in 1978. Individual chapters examine the roots of this crisis: the inability to deal sufficiently with the Maoist legacy; insufficient political reform; the clash between Deng’s revolution from above and society’s revolution from below; the imbalances created by the new economic programme; and the relationship between these domestic changes and China’s foreign policy.

    1. Introduction Marta Dassù  2. The Reform Decade in China: The Limits to Revolution from Above Tony Saich  3. No Way Out? Rural Reforms and Food Policy in China Kathleen Hartford  4. From Modernisation to Involution: Failed Pragmatism and Lost Opportunities in Deng Xiaoping’s China Yves Chevrier  5. Tiananmen 1989: Background and Consequences Marie-Claire Bergère  6. To Reform China Su Shaozhi  7. The Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy Gerald Segal  8. China’s Open-Door Policy: Results and Perspectives Roberto Bertinelli

    Biography

    Marta Dassù