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Publisher description: This book presents a collection and analysis of original policy documents, 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.

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Product Description: This volume draws on a wide range of international expertise to examine the nature of the US economic interaction with Greater China.

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Product Description: China Review has been chosen by the American Public Libraries Association for inclusion in the list of books recommended to its members for acquisition. China Review 1997, the seventh volume of the series, is an expert survey of China's major sectors of interest and critically summarizes the development of the previous year in core chapters covering politics, the economy, and social change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In a detailed and innovative account, Y.Y. Kueh provides a scholarly and authoritative study of the performance of the agricultural sector of the Chinese economy over the past sixty years. Based on detailed statistical data and other source material, Kueh analyzes the interrelationships among natural, economic, and institutional factors which lie at the heart of China's agricultural performance...read more

Product Description: 1988 marked the end of an important chapter in China's agricultural development, following a series of reforms in the previous decade. This is the single most comprehensive summary of these developments. This volume surveys different aspects of reform, while assessing its historical significance...read more