China's economic development: the interplay of scarcity and ideology

This book is the result of consistent research in the Chinese economic process and developments since 1949, which can best be understood as revoking around a continuous confrontation of the Chinese communist ideology with the realities of the country's economic background. This confrontation is largely responsible for the conditions of scarcity in some fields and of its alleviation in some others.

The theme of the book is developed in six parts. The first part provides an overview of China's development problems, policies and performance in the last two decades. Part II develops a frame work for the analysis of society vis-à-vis ideology while Part III probes into China's economic heritage. Parts IV and V examine the interplay of society and ideology in conditioning China's development strategies, patterns of economic growth and fluctuations since the country's independence, in short the study makes a two-fold contribution of considerable relevance and value.