Chapter 1 Agrarian Reform and the Consolidation of Power; Chapter 2 The Collectivization of Agriculture and the Great Leap Forward; Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution; Chapter 4 A Crisis of Succession; Chapter 5 The Reforms; Chapter 6 Dictatorship, Democracy, and Tiananmen Square; Chapter 7 Economic Crises in Democratizing States and the Foreign Investment Flood in China; Chapter 8 US Accommodation and the China Market; Chapter 9 Democracy Deterred; conclusion Conclusion;
Authored by Schaeffer, Robert K.
“I grew up thinking of China as an archetypical Communist country—a
country that unlike the Soviet Union didn’t take the ‘capitalist
road.’ In a brilliant new book, Robert Schaeffer reconceptualizes
the history of modern China and of China’s economic development
since the revolution. To Schaeffer, China was always capitalist,
but of a kind that disguised, and was meant to justify, the brutal
process of capital accumulation necessary to create an industrial
China. What distinguished ‘Communist’ China’s first thirty years
from its last was that recently, it has succeeded, and has built a
major capitalist economy. Yet, as Schaeffer shows, its success has
been at the expense of its own citizenry, and to some extent that
of other countries. I highly recommend this book.”
—John B. Judis, Senior Editor, The New Republic, and author of The
Folly of Empire
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