Ronald A. Morse - The Limits of Reform in China

The Limits of Reform in China

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The Limits of Reform in China

edited by Ronald A. Morse

Five years after Beijing's pragmatic new leadership embarked on its Four Modernizations program, the obstacles to change in China are becoming apparent, agree the contributors to this book. Focusing on developments since Mao's death and pointing to the negative effects of China's massive bureaucracy, the regime's reluctance to give up Soviet-style centralized planning, and fears among the citizenry after the Cultural Revolution, the authors assess China's progess in the areas of agriculture, industry, education, bureaucracy, and the political system.

Ronald A. Morse is secretary of the East Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Published in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

edited by Ronald A. Morse

First published 1983 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-50064

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29358-1 (hbk)

This conference volume on reform in China resulted from an East Asia Program meeting held on May 3, 1982 at The Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. The meeting, attended by nearly 100 scholars, public officials, and businessmen, grew out of the feeling at the Center that it was the appropriate time to review China's attempt to reform the intellectual, social, political, and industrial segments of society. The public response to our conference volume was favorable, and we are pleased that Westview Press has decided to make it available to a wider audience. For this publication some of the papers have been modified to include recent information.

At the Center we try to structure program activities around our resident fellows. John Israel and Hong Yung Lee, two fellows in the East Asia Program, assisted in this project. It was largely on their recommendation that scholars were selected and a format decided upon for a conference on "The Limits of Reform in China." Their introduction to the report summarizes the discussion and debate that took place the day of the conference; they were also very helpful in the final stages of preparation of this report.

The East Asia Program is relatively new to The Wilson Center. It was established three years ago as a result of strong feelings that America's destiny is increasingly linked to developments in East Asia. With publications like this, which is the second East Asia Program conference volume, we hope to deepen the understanding and appreciation of the philosophical and historical traditions underlying recent developments in Asia. This Program also publishes a series of Occasional Papers, drawn largely from meetings at the Center.

Located in the Smithsonian Institution's historic castle building on the Mall in Washington, D.C., The Wilson Center is a national memorial to the 28th President of the United States. This Center, as its Director James H. Billington notes, is a national resource for scholars and a crossroads where scholars meet with leaders in government, business, labor, and journalism. Created in 1968, it has become an important catalyst in the growing intellectual life of Washington.

Activities of the East Asia Program are made possible by cooperation and assistance from many sources. Special thanks are due Mr. Toshihiro Tomabechi, Wilson Council member and President of Mitsubishi International Corporation, for his continued interest in and support for the East Asia Program. Private funding for this conference, essential for all program activities, was made available by: Hitachi America, Ltd., Mitsui and Company (U.S.A.), Inc., the Sony Corporation of America Foundation, and the Toyota Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Washington. The Chinese ideograph for "reform" on the cover of the conference report was done by Dr. Shen Fu, Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art. Angela Fields, Virginia E. Palmer and David S. Rubin, all with the East Asia Program, played an important part in making the conference a success.

Ronald A. Morse
Secretary, East Asia Program