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Informationen zum Autor Lawrence C. Reardon Klappentext Lawrence C. Reardon is associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. Zusammenfassung Focuses on primary sources! including Chinese Communist Party histories and other restricted-circulation materials to show that China's apparently sudden turn outward in 1978 was actually an extension of previous experiments hobbled by bureaucratic infighting and conflict among rival elites. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction The Domestic Determinants of Chinese Foreign Economic Policy Antinomies of Chinese Development, 1949-1958 Neomercantilism versus Self-Sufficiency, 1959-1966 Chaos and the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971 Resurrecting the Four Modernizations, 1971-1947 The Abbreviated Leftist Response, 1974-1976 The Great Leap Outward, 1977-1979 Conclusion Appendix A: Note on Chinese Sources Appendix B: CCP Central Committee and State Council Emergency Directive, 26 October 1959 Appendix C: CCP Central Committee Approval of Export Commodity Production Base Establishment, 30 June 1960 Appendix D: CCP Central Committee Emergency Directive on Foreign Trade, 10 August 1960 Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
