The Limits Of Reform In China

This book assesses obstacles that have emerged to China's progess in the areas of agriculture, industry, education, bureaucracy, and the political system, focusing developments since Mao's death.

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Five years after Beijing's pragmatic new leadership embarked on its Four Modernizations program, the obstacles to change in China are becoming apparent, agree the contributors to this book. Focusing on developments since Mao's death and pointing to the negative effects of China's massive bureaucracy, the regime's reluctance to give up Soviet-style