Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. The People’s Republic of China during the long 1970s
5. Introduction 11
6. The socialist state between two worlds 22
7. Policy experimentation and compromise before 1979 26
8. Literature review: The Reform Era and its prehistory 29
9. Looking beyond dualisms 41
10. On socialist economic policy
11. How to organise a socialist economy? The Soviet prototype 65
12. Rich Nation, Strong Military – the origins of socialism in China 79
13. Oscillations of Chinese economic policy before 1970 87
14. A political economy of Mao Zedong Thought? 114
15. Phases of Chinese Economic Policy Formulation, 1970–1978
16. 1970–1973: The second readjustment and stabilisation 129
17. 1974–1975: Hinge years, constitutional reform and trade 146
18. 1976–1978: The Four Modernisations and a dialectical tilt 160
19. Economic policy adjustments in China (1970–1978)
20. How to organise economic activity? 173
21. How to make production more efficient? 226
22. How to finance self-reliant development? 261
23. Chinese foreign economic policy in a volatile world (1970–1978)
24. Introduction 283
25. Self-reliance and the rest of the world 290
26. The expansion of Chinese foreign trade 315
27. Of oil and grain 359
28. Imports of advanced technology 374
29. The issues of foreign debt and investment 384
30. Conclusions 401
31. Literature and sources 407