"A distinctive and important contribution."—Thomas P. Bernstein, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages

The year 2018 marks 40 years of reform and development in China (1978–2018). This commemorative book assembles some of the world’s most prominent scholars o

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away