Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao The Road to Tiananmen

In this pioneering volume, nine distinguished scholars explore the stresses and strains, costs and consequences of economic reform and political development in Leninist party-states in general and the Chinese party-state in particular.This study is the first to examine these changes from the perspective of comparative communism, and it links the post-Mao reform with political changes at the national and global levels. A variety of critical perspectives are employed in the discussion of a number of issues including the implications of Deng's "open policy," the lingering effects of traditional Chinese chauvinism and Xenophobia, and theBaum, Richard is the author of 'Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao The Road to Tiananmen' with ISBN 9780415903189 and ISBN 0415903181.