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Industrialization of rural China / Chris Bramall.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bramall, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--China.
- Industrialization.
- China.
- China--Economic policy--1976-2000.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A welcome addition to a growing literature, this book highlights the economic and social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a wealth of new data it shows that while many rural industries were initially inefficient, the workers employed in them acquired skills making the creation of a globally competitive Chinese industrial sector possible.
- Contents:
- Rural industrialization in the Maoist era
- Rural industrialization after 1978
- The role of policy change
- The learning hypothesis
- Learning to industrialize in the Maoist era
- The national evidence
- Jiangsu
- Sichuan
- Guangdong.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199275939
- 9780199275939
- OCLC:
- 71126841
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