Publisher's Synopsis
A study of power and politics in contemporary China, this book analyzes the struggle and the consequences of the Chinese reform programme under Deng Xiaoping. It explores the issues which led to the Tiananmen crisis of 1989, outlines the changes of post-Mao China from the perspective of comparative Communism, and shows how the advent of partial marketization and structural reform has magnified existing structural contradictions, throwing the economy off balance and creating public discontent.
