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Dilemmas of socialist development: An analysis of strategic lines in China, 1949–1981

1983; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14672715.1983.10404861

0007-4810

Satish Raichur,

China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

AbstractChairman Mao has been officially laid to rest, and the process of leadership transition begun at his death in 1976 appears to be largely completed. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party at its meeting in June 1981, on the 60th anniversary of the Party's founding, both chose a new Party Chairman, Hu Yaobang, and approved a 35,000-word resolution evaluating Mao Zedong's contributions and mistakes during the period of his rule. The new Deng Xiaoping leadership, comprised principally of Mao's opponents from the Cultural Revolution, has adopted a new design for development in China and has proposed new methods for achieving socialist construction. The time seems ripe for an evaluation of socialist development to date under the People's Republic of China. Additional informationNotes on contributorsSatish RaichurWe are grateful to the following for their criticisms and suggestions for revision of earlier drafts of this paper: to members of the University of Denver's FGOD Seminar, especially Xu Ming and Huang Fanzhang; to participants in the Center for Chinese Studies Regional Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, to which this paper was presented in March 1981, especially Irma Adelman and Laura Tyson; and to the reviewers for the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. In addition, we would like to thank the students over the years in our seminar on the Political Economy of the PRC with whom we have investigated most of the central problems addressed in this paper.