China's Second Revolution

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REFORM AFTER MAO Harry Harding
"In China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao, Harding provides the first comprehensive analysis of the demise of revolutionary ideology and the accompanying political and economic advances of the post-Mao decade. Harding's thorough and insightful examination of China's reconstruction necessarily begins with an analysis of Mao's legacy, then scrutinizes the ongoing strategies of current leader Deng Xiaoping."
Carolyn Wakeman, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Mr Harry Harding is unusual among the young crop of America's China-
watchers. Where his contemporaries have taken advantage of the opening of
China to indulge in research on a wealth of small topics, Mr Harding has kept
an eye for the big picture. Mr Harding has in fact written the most
comprehensive and certainly the clearest analysis of the first ten years of Mr
Deng's reforms." ^
The Economist
China has, since 1976, been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of renewal and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

REFORM AFTER MAO Harry Harding
"In China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao, Harding provides the first comprehensive analysis of the demise of revolutionary ideology and the accompanying political and economic advances of the post-Mao decade. Harding's thorough and insightful examination of China's reconstruction necessarily begins with an analysis of Mao's legacy, then scrutinizes the ongoing strategies of current leader Deng Xiaoping."
Carolyn Wakeman, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Mr Harry Harding is unusual among the young crop of America's China-
watchers. Where his contemporaries have taken advantage of the opening of
China to indulge in research on a wealth of small topics, Mr Harding has kept
an eye for the big picture. Mr Harding has in fact written the most
comprehensive and certainly the clearest analysis of the first ten years of Mr
Deng's reforms." ^
The Economist
China has, since 1976, been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of renewal and reform. The obvious changes—the T-shirts, blue jeans, makeup, and jewelry worn by Chinese youth; the disco music blaring from radios and loudspeakers on Chinese streets; the television antennas mushrooming from both urban apartment complexes and suburban peasant housing; the bustling free markets selling meat, vegetables, and clothing in China's major cities—reflect a fundamental shift in the government's policy toward the economy and political life.
Although doubts about the long-term commitment to reform arose after the student protests in December 1986 and the dismissal of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang in January 1987, the scope of reform has been so broad and the pace of change so rapid, that the post-Mao era fully warrants Deng Xiaoping's description of it as the "second revolution" undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party.
Harry Harding, a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at Brookings since 1983, has written several books on China, including Organizing China, the 1986 recipient of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He is coeditor with Bruce Dickson of Economic Relations in the Asian-Pacific Regiom Trends and Prospecte (Brookings, 1987).
The Brookings Institution
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