The Reform Decade in China

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 Dengâs revolution from above and societyâs revolution from below; the imbalances created by the new economic programme; and the relationship between these domestic changes and Chinaâs foreign policy. . Language: English