Publisher's Synopsis
In this pioneering volume, nine distinguished scholars explore the stresses and strains, costs and consequences of economic reform and political development in Leninist party-states in general and the Chinese party-state in particular.This study is the first to examine these changes from the perspective of comparative communism, and it links the post-Mao reform with political changes at the national and global levels. A variety of critical perspectives are employed in the discussion of a number of issues including the implications of Deng's "open policy," the lingering effects of traditional Chinese chauvinism and Xenophobia, and the
