Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China : The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; 1. Introduction; Part I. Historical Background and Conceptual Approach: 2. Overview: Chinese politics and economy, 1956?7; 3. Institutions and policy in China; Part II. The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward: 4. The financial coalition; 5. The planning and heavy industry coalition; 6. The Party as agent of social transformation; 7. The views of the top leadership; 8. The Third Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee and the Great Leap Forward; 9. Conclusions; Appendix: the constraints on Mao; Bibliography; Index.