PETER M. LICHTENSTEIN is Chairman of the Economics Department and Professor of Economics at Boise State Unviersity. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the People's Republic of China during 1986 and 1987, living and working at Nankai University, Tianjin. He returned to China three times as a World Bank program consultant, once during the pro-democracy movement in 1989. He specializes in comparative economic systems.

• Preface Introduction Fifty Days in the Spring of 1989: A Tiananmen Retrospective The Rise and Fall of Chinese Reforms The Maoist Era and the Reform Imperative The Reform Era: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Chinese Reforms on the Rocks From Reform to Retrenchment: China's Great Leap Backward The Political Economy of Chinese Reforms A Primer on the Politics of Left and Right in the 1980s Reform, Power, Crisis and Retrenchment Conclusions Chinese Reforms in Retrospect Bibliography Index

PETER M. LICHTENSTEIN is Chairman of the Economics Department and Professor of Economics at Boise State Unviersity. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the People's Republic of China during 1986 and 1987, living and working at Nankai University, Tianjin. He returned to China three times as a World Bank program consultant, once during the pro-democracy movement in 1989. He specializes in comparative economic systems.

• Preface Introduction Fifty Days in the Spring of 1989: A Tiananmen Retrospective The Rise and Fall of Chinese Reforms The Maoist Era and the Reform Imperative The Reform Era: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Chinese Reforms on the Rocks From Reform to Retrenchment: China's Great Leap Backward The Political Economy of Chinese Reforms A Primer on the Politics of Left and Right in the 1980s Reform, Power, Crisis and Retrenchment Conclusions Chinese Reforms in Retrospect Bibliography Index

PETER M. LICHTENSTEIN is Chairman of the Economics Department and Professor of Economics at Boise State Unviersity. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the People's Republic of China during 1986 and 1987, living and working at Nankai University, Tianjin. He returned to China three times as a World Bank program consultant, once during the pro-democracy movement in 1989. He specializes in comparative economic systems.

• Preface Introduction Fifty Days in the Spring of 1989: A Tiananmen Retrospective The Rise and Fall of Chinese Reforms The Maoist Era and the Reform Imperative The Reform Era: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Chinese Reforms on the Rocks From Reform to Retrenchment: China's Great Leap Backward The Political Economy of Chinese Reforms A Primer on the Politics of Left and Right in the 1980s Reform, Power, Crisis and Retrenchment Conclusions Chinese Reforms in Retrospect Bibliography Index