Economy and Society, 1800–1978

David J. Pyle
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Chapter 2 in China’s Economy, 1997, pp 24-49 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When the Communists took control of China in 1949, the economy had been ravaged by nearly one hundred years of conflict. First had come internal conflicts which culminated in the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists (the Kuomintang). Second, superimposed upon this conflict, there had been a series of wars with various Western imperialist aggressors, the last of which was the war with Japan (1937–45). As a result, industrial production in 1949 was barely more than one half of its pre-war peak (Riskin, 1987).

Keywords: Qing Dynasty; Chinese Communist Party; Cultural Revolution; Great Leap; Soviet Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25802-4_2

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