The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
Автор:Lawrence C. Reardon Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0295981210 Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. In this revisionist analysis, Lawrence Reardon argues that China was not out of touch with the global marketplace during the 1949--78 period and that Deng Xiaopingis heralded liberalizations in fact were revisions and expansions of policies from the Maoist period. The dramatic economic reforms initiated by Chinais leaders in 1978 boosted GDP by between 9 and 13 percent each year during the 1980s and 1990s, while the nationis foreign trade figures rose from a trivial US$1.94 billion in 1952 to US$325 billion in 1997. By opening to the outside world and liberalizing the domestic economic infrastructure, China has become the third largest and one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The story of Chinais on-again, off-again trade efforts provides an important window on the cyclical struggle for power between Mao Zedongis...
