Arif Dirlik - Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIALISM

Mark Selden, Series Editor

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE SOCIALISM
Mark Selden

MARXISM AND THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE
Edited by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner

The Political Economy of Socialism

Edited by

Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner

An East Gate Book

Firsl published 1989 by M.E. Sharpe

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Marxism and the Chinese experience: issues in contemporary Chinese socialism / by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner, editors.
p. cm.(The Political economy of socialism)
Includes bibliographies and index.
ISBN 0-87332-515-XISBN 0-87332-546-X (pbk.)
1. CommunismChina. 2. ChinaEconomic policy1976
3. ChinaPolitics and government1976 I. Dirlik, Arif.
II. Meisner, Maurice J., 1931 .III. Series.

ISBN 13: 9780873325462 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780873325158 (hbk)

For Benjamin I. Schwartz

Part I
Introduction

Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner