State and market in China's socialist industrialisation

Abstract

Discusses socialist transformation of Chinese industry; the centralised system of industrial planning (adoption of the Soviet model of central planning and Chinese industrial planning in operation in the Maoist era); Chinese industrial performance in the Maoist era; the theoretical basis of the economic reform programme (the conflicting economic logics of state and market, the relationship between state agencies and industrial enterprises and the reform critique); and the impact of economic reforms (on the financial system; labour recruitment and allocation and commodity circulation and price policy). -after Author