Transforming China

Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive and perceptive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. With wide-ranging primary materials, including interviews, surveys and author's own recollections of Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang, the book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform, especially multiplying socio-political problems, and the international ramifications of China's rise.

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Wei-Wei Zhang is Senior Research Fellow at the Modern Asia Research Center, Geneva University, Switzerland and Professor of Humanities at Fudan University of China.

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Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive and perceptive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. With wide-ranging primary materials, including interviews, surveys and author's own recollections of Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang, the book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform, especially multiplying socio-political problems, and the international ramifications of China's rise.