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WWII & Making of Modern Asia/Pacific: China

For HIST 296, Fall 2024. It contains library materials related to Sino-U.S. relations during cold war, propaganda posters in China, China's economic reforms between late 1970s to early 1980s.

Book chapters

Pyle, David J. "Economic Reforms, 1979-94: Introduction and Overview." In  China’s Economy : From Revolution to Reform. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Solomon, Robert. "From Mao to DengEconomic Reform." In Solomon, Robert. The Transformation of the World Economy, 1980-93. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Vogel, Ezra F. “Accelerating Economic Growth and Opening: 1982–1989.” In Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, 450–76. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2011. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674062832.c17.

Peer-reviewed Journal articles

Berger, Yakov. “Deng Xiaoping and Economic Reform in China.” Far Eastern Affairs 32, no. 4 (2004): 32-.

Bachman, David. “Differing Visions of China’s Post-Mao Economy: The Ideas of Chen Yun, Deng Xiaoping, and Zhao Ziyang.” Asian Survey 26, no. 3 (1986): 292–321. doi:10.1525/as.1986.26.3.01p03644.

Goodman, David. “China under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform and Reforming the Revolution: China in Transition.” International Affairs (London) 66, no. 1 (1990): 210–11. doi:10.2307/2622277.

Kojima, Reeitsu. “Achievements and Contradictions in China’s Economic Reform, 1979–88.” Developing Economies 28, no. 4 (1990): 365–89. doi:10.1111/j.1746-1049.1990.tb00189.x.

Pairault, Thierry. “Chinese Market Mechanism: A Controversial Debate.” World Development 11, no. 8 (1983): 639–45. doi:10.1016/0305-750X(83)90108-0.

Sorin-George Toma, and Andreea Simona Săseanu. “China’s Economic Rise after 1978.” “Ovidius” University Annals. Economic Sciences Series (Online) XIX, no. 1 (2019): 45–50.

Tisdell, Clem. "Economic Reform and Openness in China: China’s Development Policies in the Last 30 Years. Economic analysis and policy, 2009-09, Vol.39 (2), p.271-294.

Walter, Carl E. “Was Deng Xiaoping Right? A 40‐Year Assessment of China’s Adoption of Western Capital Markets.” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 33, no. 4 (2021): 24–38. doi:10.1111/jacf.12476.

Zhou, Taomo. “Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao’an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 2 (2021): 337–61. doi:10.1017/S0021911821000012.

Magazine Articles

Levin, Bob, and Melinda Liu. Peking’s New Line-UpNewsweek. Vol. 96. Newsweek LLC, 1980.

Zagoria, Donald S.China's Quiet Revolution. Foreign affairs (New York, N.Y.), 1984-04, Vol.62 (4), p.879-904