King-yuh Chang - Perspectives on Development in Mainland China

Perspectives on Development in Mainland China

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The contributors to this book explore a variety of issues concerned with mainland China's political processes, military structure, and economic development, among them changes in both the ideological superstructure and the organizational base of Chinese politics; the problem of succession; military strategies and civil-military relations; the use of international law in treaty negotiations and implementation; agricultural development policy; foreign exchange supply and planning; and the government's new price system. The book includes analyses of the country's political, economic, and foreign policies as compared to those of other Communist states and an examination of China's role in U.S. security policy.

Dr. King-yuh Chang, formerly professor of international relations and director of the Institute of International Relations, Taipei, is director-general of the Government Information Office, Taiwan.

Published in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, Taipei, Taiwan

edited by
King-yuh Chang

First published 1985 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-52562

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28272-1 (hbk)

Mainland China has been a fascinating subject for study for a number of reasons: its huge size in terms of both population and space; its ancient civilization (or what's left of it) and its backwardness in the contemporary period; its tight organization under a highly disciplined, omnipresent Communist Party; and its violent swings of policies, programs, and personalities. Armed with nuclear weapons and hostile to either or both of the superpowers at one time or another, mainland China and its future orientation are also of great importance to world peace and regional security.

For more than a decade, scholars of the Republic of China and the United States have undertaken annual reviews of Chinese mainland affairs. On each occasion from seventy-five to one hundred scholars combined their efforts to examine the Chinese Communist Party and its politics, economy, education, culture and society, and military and foreign affairs. Although it is inevitable--and perhaps this should also be welcome--that differences of opinion have appeared from time to time because of divergences in their backgrounds, training, access to information, and perspectives, all the participants have seriously tried to discover the truth, which sometimes is very elusive indeed. As a result of this long, collaborative endeavor, considerable light has been shed on main-land China.

Over the years, the Hoover Institution on War olution and Peace, Stanford University; the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University; the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, George Washington University; the Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina; and the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, have hosted conferences in the United States. Whenever conferences in this series were held in Taiwan, the Republic of China, the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, played host.

In the last few years, the present leadership in main-land China has attempted to make ideological, political, economic, and social adjustments in order to cope with very serious domestic challenges. Mainland China's foreign policies are also evolving in order to meet the requirements of modernization. What are the realities, problems, and prospects for these new policies? In what ways are these new policies comparable with those of other Communist systems? To examine these and other related issues, the Twelfth Sino-American Conference on Mainland China was held from June 9-12, 1983, at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia. This volume contains the papers delivered during that conference. Professor William R. Johnson, acting director of the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, George Washington University; Professor Harold C. Hinton, Conference Coordinator; and their colleagues deserve all the credit for organizing the conference and attracting many distinguished scholars in the field to take part in its discussions. To them, to all the participants, and to colleagues at the Institute of International Relations, the editor would like to express his special gratitude. Last but not least, the editor would like to thank Mr. Frederick A. Praeger and his associates at Westview Press for efficiently bringing out this publication for a much wider readership.