The Great Reversal: The Privatization of China, 1978-1989
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0853457948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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left. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The Great Reversal, Hundred Day War, Shenfan, and Turning Point in China.. William Hinton (1919-2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S
About the AuthorWilliam Hinton (1919-2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The Great Reversal, Hundred Day War, Shenfan, and Turning Point in China.. left
He witnessed the events of June 1989 first hand. In so doing he sheds new light on the sources of discontent behind the demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen massacre of June 1989. The Great Reversal is the first critical study of the widely heralded reforms currently transforming China's economy. Recognized inside and outside China as an expert on the country's agriculture, Hinton spent five or six months there every year but one since 1978, when the wave of reform was first introduced. From his long experience in Chinese agriculture, Hinton first examines the course of agricultural reform over the past decade, then looks at its consequences in different areas of the countryside and considers its implications for the country as a whole. This experience gives authority to an analysis that digs deeper and more widely than anything else available. His essays open up a new perspective on Mao and his successors, one that has been totally obscured by the Western media.. He raises troubling questions about China's capitalist future-the growing landlessness, increasing inequality, and above all, the destruction of the nation's natural resources and t