Volume 26, Number 5 · April 5, 1979
Has China Failed?
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)
Chinese Economy Post-Mao, A Compendium of Papers Volume 1:Policy and Performance States, November 9, 1978
printed for the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United
US Government Printing Office, 880 pp., $7.00
In recent years a comfortable assumption for those concerned with the plight of the world's poor has been that Mao's battle against poverty in China was extraordinarily successful. Events in China since Mao's death force us to re-examine this assumption. At the top, dissatisfaction with the results of Mao's social and economic policies is now evident: to cite just one example, Teng Hsiao-p'ing has publicly referred to the last ten years of the late Chairman's rule as a 'lost decade.'
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