Bureaucracy, economy, and leadership in China : the institutional origins of the great leap forward / David Bachman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachman, David M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--China--History--20th century.

Bureaucracy.

Industrial policy--China--History--20th century.

Industrial policy.

History.

China--Economic policy--1949-.

China.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xxii, 262 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Summary:

In this book David Bachman examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward (GLF), a program of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China, estimated to have caused the death of between 14 and 28 million Chinese. While standard accounts interpret the GLF as chiefly the brainchild of Mao Zedong and as a radical rejection of a set of more moderate reform proposals put forward in the period 1956 to 1957, Bachman proposes a provocative reinterpretation of the origins of the GLF that stresses the role of the bureaucracy. Using a neo-institutionalist approach to analyze economic policy-making leading up to the GLF, he argues that the GLF must be seen as the product of an institutional process of policy-making.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.

ISBN:

0521402751

OCLC:

22488370