This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. During the 1950s the Chinese Communist Pa

Presents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.

There have been two great shifts of power on the world stage during the past five centuries: the rise of Europe following the Industrial Revolution, and the ris

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just begin