Transforming China's Economy In The Eighties

Stephan Feuchtwang Senior lecturer in Sociology and Principal of the China Research Unit at The City University, London; co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983). Athar Hussain Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Keele; co-author of Marxism and the Agrarian Question (London, 1981) and co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983)

• Preface -- NEP and Beyond: The Transition to ‘Modernization’ in China (1978-85) -- The People's Livelihood and the Incidence of Poverty -- The New Peasant Economy in China -- China's Food Take-Off? -- The Implications of Contract Agriculture for the Employment and Status of Chinese Peasant Women -- Implementation and Resistance: The Single-Child Family Policy -- China's New Inheritance Law: Some Preliminary Observations -- Urban Employment in Post-Maoist China -- Urban Housing Policy after Mao