The International Environment and China’s Twin Models of Development

The Author: Lai Sing Lam received his Bachelor of Economics, M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2000, he was honored with an American Biographical Institute’s 20th Century Achievement Award of the 1000 Leaders of World Influence. In that year he was admitted to membership of the Board of Governors of the ABI Research Association. In the same year, he was also awarded Cambridge’s International Biographical Centre medal of the 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century in honor of an outstanding contribution to Chinese Studies.

Contents: Mao's Post-War Worldview and the Defense-Oriented Collectivization Scheme - 1958-1969: The US as Primary Enemy with the USSR as "No. 1 Accomplice of the US" - Mao Launches the Great Leap Forward, the Commune and the Cultural Revolution - 1969-1976: The USSR as Primary Enemy and the US as Secondary Enemy - Mao's Relaxed Development Policies - Mao's Legacy: Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reform and Open-Door Policy - The Transformation of the Bipolarity: From "Good-Neighborliness" to Inducing the Whole World to Help Modernize China - The International Environment and Jiang's Strategy of Continuing to Induce the Whole World to Help Modernize China - Jiang Zemin's Approach to Privatization - China in the New Century.