Forty Years of Chinese Reforms: An Overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-358
Author(s):  
Iikka Korhonen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Reforms

On one event in the history of reforms in China

2017 ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
A. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Market Development ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Balance Of Interests ◽  
History Of ◽  
Party Congress ◽  
Chinese Reforms

The paper analyzes confrontation concerning continuation of market reforms between main groups in Chinese elite after Tiananmen in 1989 and collapse of USSR in 1991. It considers in details the ‘southern tour’ of Deng Xiaoping in early 1992 and its impact on the balance of interests in Chinese elites before the 14th party congress. The paper shows also the specifics of Chinese reforms which combine market development with creation of rents for main elite groups.

Reforms and transformation paths in comparative perspective: challenging comparative views on East European and Chinese reforms

2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Csanádi
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
State Power ◽  
State Model ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Dynamic Background ◽  
East European ◽  
Structural Context ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Party State ◽  
Chinese Reforms

Reforms, in view of a comparative party-state model, become the instruments of self-reproduction and self-destruction of party-state power. The specific patterns of power distribution imply different development and transformation paths through different instruments of self-reproduction. This approach also points to the structural and dynamic background of the differences in the location, sequence, speed and political conditions of reforms during the operation and transformation of party-states. In view of the model the paper points to the inconsistencies that emerge in the comparative reform literature concerning the evaluation and strategies of reforms disconnected from their systemic-structural context.

Chinese Economic Reforms: Path, Progress, and Prospects

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
J C Sandesara
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
Chinese Reforms

In recent years, Chinese economic reforms have attracted world-wide attention for a number of reasons. This article by J C Sandesara discusses the reason for the widespread interest in the Chinese reforms, elucidates the underlying principles of reforms, outlines their applications to major sectors of the economy, highlights the achievements during the reform years, and speculates on the future of reforms.

Origins of the Agricultural “Miracle”: Some Evidence from Sichuan

1995 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 731-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bramall
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Chinese Reforms

The Chinese reforms that began in 1978 mercifully ended one of the most brutal and misguided economic regimes in modern history… [responsible for]… a manmade famine that killed millions during 1959–1961, and for state-promoted social upheaval that destroyed the lives of millions, including almost the whole intellectual class, while paralysing rural development for more than a decade between 1966 and 1978.

scholarly journals Reappraising Zhang Zhidong: Forgotten Continuities During China’s Self-Strengthening, 1884-1901

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-192
Author(s):  
Adam Chang
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Military Reform ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Military Academies ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Zhang Zhidong ◽  
Chinese Reforms

Abstract The recent historiography of China’s late nineteenth-century Self-Strengthening movement emphasizes the successes in Chinese state building. My research expands upon this trend through the perspective of the prominent governor-general Zhang Zhidong 張之洞 (1837-1909) and his military reforms. From 1884 to 1901, Zhang consistently pursued the creation of new military academies and western-style armies with the aim of providing an army capable of defending China. At the turn of the century, Zhang’s military apparatus was arguably one of the best in China. However, his role as a military pioneer of this era was often obscured by the wider narratives of Chinese reforms or subsumed under the reforms of more notorious officials such as Li Hongzhang or Yuan Shikai. Ultimately, the study of Zhang Zhidong’s reforms reveals an often-missed continuity in successful military reform starting in the 1880s and contributes to the developing historical narratives of successful late Qing state building.

Economic Reform in the Peoples Republic of China: Resuscitation or Transformation

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Richard Fey ◽  
Alan Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Growth Theory ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Bare Minimum ◽  
Chinese Reforms

In 1978 Deng Xiaoping brought economic reform to the People's Republic of China. Using modern growth theory to assess the success of the Chinese reforms and the likelihood of continuing economic progress, we find a transformation in total factor productivity (TFP) growth unparalleled in recorded economic history. Moreover established growth economics finds that TFP growth, once established tends to persist at the same rate over long periods of time. While the death of Deng left a vacuum in political leadership, his reforms, crafted with great ingenuity, combined with political change limited to the bare minimum necessary, appear to have established the groundwork for continued growth. Still, a number of policy issues will need to be addressed by the Chinese government if that growth is to be achieved.

The Post-Mao Reforms in Historical Perspective

1988 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Political System ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Chinese Reforms

Academic writing on the post-Mao reforms—as indeed on almost every other aspect of China since 1949—has been largely in the hands of social scientists. Much of this writing, moreover, has been done either explicitly or implicitly from a systemic perspective. That is, it seeks to understand the reform process as unfolding within a particular kind of social, economic, and political system and to infer from other reform attempts in comparable systems something about the course the Chinese reforms are likely to take. When Chalmers Johnson (1982) applies the “Leninist government paradigm” to the Chinese case and makes certain observations about the potential for “peaceful structural change” within societies that conform to this paradigm, he is operating from the systemic perspective.

The Parameter and Paradigm of Chinese Reforms

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zamir
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Reforms
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