First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data on the Chinese economy and society in twenty years both necessitated and made possible a thorough reconsideration of the full range of issues pertaining to the political and economic trajectory of the People's Republic in its first three decades. The contributors to this volume initiated a comprehensive effort to address fundamental problems of China's socialist development and to reassess earlier perspectives and conclusions.

1. Mark Selden and Victor Lippit The Transition to Socialism in China 2. Mark Selden Cooperation and Conflict: Cooperative and Collective Formation in China's Countryside 3. William Hinton Village in Transition 4. Victor Lippit Socialist Development in China 5. Edward Friedman Maoism, Titoism Stalinism: Some Origins and Consequences of the Maoist Theory of the Socialist Transition 6. Andrew Walder Some Ironies of the Maoist Legacy in Industry 7. Kojima Reiitsu Accumulation, Technology, and China's Economic Development 8. Tang Tsou, Marc Blecher, and Mitch Meisner National Agricultural Policy: The Dazhai Model and Local Change in the Post-Mao Era 9. Carl Riskin Market, Maoism, and Economic Reform in China; About the Contributors