The immense process of economic and social transformation currently underway in China and Vietnam is well known and extensively documented. However, less attent

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The profound political, economic, and social changes in China in the second half of the twentieth century have produced a wealth of scholarship; less studied ho

Examines the dramatic transformation of Asian communist countries-China in particular-to vigorous market economies

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