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Inscrutable Socialism
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BOOK WORLD
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3 / 1986 |
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Jan S. Prybyla
Jan S. Prybyla is a professor of economics at Pennsylvania
State University. His latest book, Market and Plan Under
Socialism: The Bird in the Cage is published by the Hoover
Institution Press. He is the author of Issues in Socialist
Economic Modernization and two books on the Chinese economy. |
MODERNIZING CHINA: POST-MAO REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT
A. Doak Barnett and Ralph N. Clough (Eds.)
Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1986
xii+136pp., $23.85 hardcover; $12.85 paperback
SWEET AND SOUR CAPITALISM
An Analysis of 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics'
Donal J. Senese
Washington, D.C.: The Council for Social and Economic Studies, 1985
vii+153 pp.
TO GET RICH GLORIOUS: CHINA IN THE EIGHTIES
Orville Schell
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984
210 pp., $15.95 hard cover; $4.95 paperback
The Western fascination with China and the readiness to explain away, when not praising, all kinds of chinoiseries, has had some unfortunate consequences for our ability to dispassionately understand what was and is going on there. The situation was particularly deplorable from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, a time when, except for two or three years in the early sixties, a gaggle of ideological crazies was running the country, experimenting with instant utopias and wreaking havoc with the culture, polity, economy, and personal lives of the Chinese people. Much of the literature on China produced in the West at that time, the part of it uncritically supportive of the Maoist derangement,
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