Volume 26, Number 7 · May 3, 1979
China: How Much Success?
By Nick Eberstadt
China as a Model of Development
by Al Imfeld
Orbis Books, 157 pp., $4.95 (paper)
China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy
by John G. Gurley
Monthly Review Press, 325 pp., $5.95 (paper)
China's Economic Revolution
by Alexander Eckstein
Cambridge University Press, 340 pp., $7.50 (paper)
The communist transformation of China is certainly the largest, and arguably the most ambitious, of the many state-administered 'social experiments' which have characterized our century. The 'experiment' on the mainland has been in progress nearly thirty years; it is not premature to ask whether it seems to have been successful.
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