Reforming the Revolution: China in Transition [Paperback]

A guide to China since the death of Mao Zedong, explaining and assessing the political conficts and developments of the post-Mao era and the dramatic economic transformations launched by the new leadership. International relations, education, health and literary revival are also considered.China in the 1980s, R.Benewick & P.Wingrove; the politics of transition, J.Gardner; reform of China's political system, T.Saich; political participation, R.Benewick; political reform, the student demonstrations and the Conservative backlash, R.Munro; the new economic paradigm, towards market socialism, G.White; the reorganization of the countryside, M.Blecher; the urban economy, M.Lockett; technology and economic development, R.Conroy; opening up to the outside world, T.Cannon; the household, the family and the reforms, E.Croll; health and medicine in the 1980s, S.Hillier; educational reforms - quality, access and equity, K.Lewin; literature in the post-Mao years, A.Wedell-Wedellsborg; China and the Superpowers, G.Segal; China and the regional powers, P.Wingrove.