ABSTRACT
This volume is the product of three decades of reflection drawing on archival, documentary, and field research on the revolutionary and reformist transformations of Chinese political economy and society. The focus is the interrelationship-at times reciprocal but often conflictual, even explosive-between state and society, between city and countryside, and among social classes and sectors as these relationships have shaped and been shaped by developmental patterns and priorities in a predominantly agrarian industrializing nation.
