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Compare the policies of the Chinese reform era with those of the pre-1978 era of Maoist domination,
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Compare the policies of the Chinese reform era with those of the pre-1978 era of Maoist domination, INTRODUCTION The liberation of China from the Guomindang in 1949 and the ascendancy of Chairman Mao Zedong in the newly formed People's Republic of China (PRC) heralded the start of a period of socialist transformation that was to last thirty years. In this period China, "progressed from a backward, predominantly feudal, agricultural base to a [considerable] level of industrial sophistication" (Breth, 1977, p1). However, since his death in 1976 the development program used by Mao has, supposedly, been radically altered; archetypal socialist characteristics (rural collectivisation, central planning, state control and ownership of industry, self-reliance and isolationism etc.) being replaced by capitalistic strategies implemented to realise the Four Modernisations (e.g. the role of the market, private ownership of the means of production and an increase in foreign trade etc.). The scale of Deng Xiaoping (Mao's successor) policy 'shift'...
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