Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era

Katsuji Nakagane is a professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo. He also taught at Hitotsubashi University and Aoyama Gakuin University. He obtained his Ph.D. in international economics at The University of Tokyo in 1992. He was formerly president of the Japan Association of Asian Studies, president of the Japan Association of Comparative Economics Studies, president of the Japan Association of Chinese Economic and Management Studies, and editor-in-chief of the Developing Economies. He has published several books on the Chinese economy, development economics and systemic transition in Japanese, such as Studies on the Chinese Economy (University of Tokyo Press, 1992), Studies on the Development of the Chinese Economy (Yuhikaku, 1999), The Political Economy of Systemic Transitions (Nagoya University Press 2010), Contemporary China and Development Economics (Nagoya University Press, 2012), andMao Zedong—The Truth Falls Down from Heaven (Nagoya University Press, 2021).

Chapter 1: Mao Zedong’s Political Economics and Deng Xiaoping’s Economics.- Chapter 2: From “New Democracy” to “Socialist Transformation”: Bankers and Commercial Associations in 1950s Chongqing.- Chapter 3: Examination on Collective Farming from Production Cost Survey.- Chapter 4: People’s Communes: A Microanalysis Based on Accounting Data of Production Team X in Jiangsu Province (1965-81).- Chapter 5: Water Use Construction: Flood Control and Irrigation Projects and Labor Accumulation.- Chapter 6: Rural Finance: State Banks and Rural Credit Cooperatives in the Context of Fund Transfers.- Chapter 7: Heavy Industry: Heavy Industrialization and Its Evaluation.- Chapter 8: Light Industry: Socialist Industrialization and the Textile Industry.- Chapter 9: Rural Industry: Policy on Five Small Industries with a Special Emphasis on the Fertilizer and Cement Industries.- Chapter 10: Chinese Societies during the Mao Era: Work and Life in the “Shanghai Small Third Front”.