A Third Way: The Origins of China's Current Economic Development Strategy

by Lawrence C Reardon

From 1949 to 1978, communist elites held clashing visions of China's economic development. Mao Zedong advocated the "first way" of semi-autarchy characteristic of revolutionary Stalinism (1929-34), while Zhou Enlai adapted bureaucratic Stalinism (1934-53) to promote the "second way" of import substitution industrialization. A Third Way tells the story of Deng Xiaoping's experimentation with export-led development inspired by Lenin's New...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247884
• ISBN13: 9780674247888
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"