Abstract
In this paper we intend to examine the changes in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies concerning rural distribution since the death of Mao Zedong, with particular attention to the relationship between the pursuit of egalitarian socialist and economic growth objectives in the context of a specific case of state socialist development. A serious consideration of the new strategy must first give some account of policies implemented during and after the Cultural Revolution and their impact on farm output and rural inequality. Only then can we gain a clear idea of the degree to which policies have in fact changed and the relationship of these changes to problems experienced during the Cultural Revolution decade of 1966–1976.
Notes
A slightly different version of this paper will appear in China's New Development Policy, edited by Gordon White and Jack Gray, published by Academic Press.
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