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Croll, E. From Heaven to Earth; Images and Experiences of Development in China
London ; New York Routledge 0415101875 / 9780415101875 First Edition Hardcover
Book Description: This book combines information on events, processes and structures into a comprehensive introduction to the study of reform in rural China, and provides an invaluable complement to contemporary studies of China. : This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. : Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore. Tandf. Co.uk.; 317 pages
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Lardy, Nicholas R. China's Unfinished Economic Revolution
Washington, DC Brookings Institution Press 0815751338 / 9780815751335 Paperback
ABOUT THE BOOK: China's Unfinished Economic Revolution: FROM THE PUBLISHER: analyzes the new reform initiatives China has launched in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, suggests additional steps that must be taken, and evaluates the implications for U. S. Policy. : FROM THE CRITICS: Aasim Husain - Finance & Development: This book gives the reader a rich understanding of the interrelationships among enterprises, banks, and fiscal policy during China's gradual but impressive economic transformation. Lardy's comprehensive analysis of the problems in the banking sector suggests that China will face daunting challenges in the future.; 304 pages
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Schell, Orville Mandate of Heaven: New Generatn Entrepreneurs, & Technocrats Claim China Future
New York Simon & Schuster 0671701320 / 9780671701321 Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly: In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, observes Schell, a generation in China has seemingly lost the grand hope of radically reforming the political establishment. Nevertheless, Schell ( To Get Rich Is Glorious ) offers valuable firsthand reportage not only on April-June 1989 but also on spontaneous acts of resistance and mini-rebellions since then. He also profiles China's new muckrakers, underground publishers, artists, rock musicians and entrepreneurs who are flourishing in gray zones of commerce and culture outside the party-state structure. If another upheaval comes, Schell surmises, it will arise over economic rather than political issues. He takes us inside China's abysmal prisons, arbitrary courts, the vast gulag of forced-labor camps and the nascent union movement. He interviews astrophysicist and dissident Fang Lizhi and exiled labor activist Han Dongfang. Schell's mix of trenchant reporting and political analysis makes him an indispensable guide to a new China struggling to be born. : Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. : From Library Journal: Although the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is important to Americans who are concerned about human rights in China, Schell reiterates much of what already has been observed by others. The difference is that his book is disorganized and, therefore, difficult to read. In contrast to Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's excellent China Wakes (LJ 7/94) , Mandate of Heaven uses secondhand sources to document Tiananmen. In the first 230 pages, Schell describes his interviews with Chinese dissidents, which have already been published in unabridged form in, for example, the New York Times Magazine. The second half of his book supports the thesis that Deng Xiaoping have effectively squashed the people's interest in political freedom by appealing to their craving for material wealth. Finally, this is a book of impressions, which makes Schell's failure to provide a context particularly frustrating. Except when he states that he was vice-chair of Asia Watch, Schell does not discuss his own background. With a career in journalism that dates back to the early 1970s and an expertise in Chinese language that began in the early 1960s, this is a strange omission-as is the fact that he mentions his Chinese-born spouse only in passing. For the very reason that Schell frequently mentions his Chinese friends, he needs to provide the reader with some understanding of how he became acquainted with them. An optional purchase. : Peggy Spitzer Christoff, Oak Park, Ill. : Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.; 464 pages
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