Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Yu Guangyuan (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many other books on China’s economic reform which are written by outside observers.   Yu Guangyuan (1915-) is a famous Chinese philosopher and economist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party from 1937, he has made significant contributions in the fields of Marxist theory and in state planning. He was head of the Political Research Office of the State Council from 1975 and the first director of the Economic Research Institute of the State Planning Commission. He has held many other important posts, and was editor-in-chief of the "Dictionary of Economics".   The book is published in association with China Development Research Foundation, one of the leading economic and social think tanks in China, where many of the theoretical foundations and policy details of economic reform were formulated.

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It all began in 1978 when Deng emerged as China’s preeminent leader and immediately launched a new era of internal reform and expanded contact with the external world. The changes made in those early days not only altered China’s own course but were to profoundly affect the rest of the world, as well. We have long known the bare facts about the 11th Party Congress, but we have known almost nothing about the 36-day CCP Party Work Conference of November, 1978 and little more about what went on behind the scenes at the Third Plenum, which immediately followed the Conference, that December. Fortunately, in 1998, on the 20th anniversary of these earth-shaking events, one of the last surviving key participants in these meetings, Yu Guangyuan, then age 83, wrote a book describing the background and the activities of both meetings. Yu was a regular active participant in the Party Work Conference and, although he was not a member of the Central Committee, he did attend the plenum as a staff member and took regular notes. Yu based his book on his detailed notes of those meetings.  . . . Thanks to Yu’s account, we now understand the nature of the Party Work Conference and the drama that took place there. Until Yu’s book appeared, it was possible for Western scholars to argue that the turning point in China’s reform and opening was at the Third Plenum of December 1978. We now know that all the key debates had already been held at the 36-day Party Work Conference . . . and that the Third Plenum which followed immediately was essentially ceremonial, officially approving the new consensus that had been worked out at the Party Work Conference.

Deng Xiaoping Shakes the World: An Eyewitness Account of China's Party Work Conference and the Third Plenum (November-December 1978) (Voices of Asia)

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