Chinese Economy

Introduction: China's Recent Economic Growth

Barnathan, J. & P. Engardio (1993), "Special Report: China -- The Emerging Economic Powerhouse of the 21st Century," p.54-69, Business Week, May 17.

Lardy, Nicholas R., China in the World Economy, Institute for International Economics, 1994, pp.14- 18.

Lin, Cal and Li, The China Miracle Development and Strategy and Economic Reform, The (Chinese University Press Hong Kong, 1996. Chapter 1.

Perkins, Dwight H. (1986), China -- Asia's Next Economic Giant? University of Washington Press.

Economist, "When China Wakes: A Survey of China," November 28, 1992.

Overholt, William H., (1993) The Rise of China -- How Economic Reform Is Creating a New Superpower. W. W. Norton & Company.

Chinese Economy before the Socialist Revolution

The World Bank. China: Socialist Economic Development, Vol.1, Washington, D. The World Bank. 1983, Chapter 1.

Cheng, Chu-yuan, China's Economic Development: Growth and Structural Change. Westview Press, 1982. Chapter 1.

Liu, Ta-Chung & Kung-Chia Yeh (1965), The Economy of the Chinese Mainland: National Income and Economic Development, 1933-1959, Princeton University Press.

Riskin, Carl, China's Political Economy, the Quest for Development since 1949, Oxford University Press, 1991, Chapter 2.

Lin, Justin Yifu, "The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China," in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 43 No.2, January, 1995, pp.269-292.

Dernberger, Robert, F., "The Role of the Foreigner in China's Economic Development, 1840- 1949," in Dwight Perkins, ea., China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975, pp.19-47.

Cheng, Chu-yuan, China's Economic Development: Growth and Structural Change. Westview Press, 1982, Chapter 2.

Wright, Tim, ed. (1992), The Chinese Economy in the Early Twentieth Century -- Recent Chinese Studies, St. Martin's Press.

Howe, Christopher (1978), China's Economy -- A Basic Guide, Paul Elek Books Limited.

Rawski, Thomas G. (1989), Economic Growth in Prewar China, University of California Press.

Economic Development under Mao

Chang, John K. (1969), Industrial Development in Pre-Communist China -- A Quantitative Analysis, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago.

Cheng, Chu-yuan, China'.s Economic Development. Growth and Structural Change. Westview Press, 1982. Chapter 3, 4, 12.

Gluckstein, Ygael (1957), Mao's China -- Economic and Political Survey, The Beacon Press, London.

Johnson, D. Gale. "The People's Republic of China, 1978-1990" Chapter 1
Kane, Penny (1988), Famine in China, 1959-61 -- Demographic and Social Implications, MacMillan Press.

Lin, Cal and Li, The China  Miracle. Development Strategy and Economic Reform, The Chinese University Press. Hong Kong, 1996. Chapters 2, 3 & 4.

Lin, Justin Yifu, "Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis in 1959-1961," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 98 (December 1990)

Riskin, Carl, China's Political Economy, Chapters 4, 5, 6.

Riskin, Carl, Chinu's Political Economy, the Questfor Development since 1949, Oxford University Press, 1991, Chapters 3, 8 and 9.

Selden, Mark (1993), The Political Economy of Chinese Development, M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Yeh, K.C., "Soviet and Communist Chinese Industrialization Strategies," in Treadgold ed., Soviet and Chinese Communism? University of Washington Press, 1967, pp.327-363.

The Chinese Economy in 1978

Harding, Harry, China's Second Revolution. Reform after Mao, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1987, Chapter 2.

Johnson, D. Gales "The People's Republic of China, 1978-1990" Chapter 2.

Naughton, Barry, Crown, out the Plan, 1995. Chapter 1: "The Command Economy and the China Difference," pp. 26-38.

The World Bank, China: Socialist Economic Development, Vol. 1, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1983, Chapters 2 and 3.

Overview of Economic Reforms

Bell, Michael W., Hoe We Knor, and Kalpana Kochhar, China at the Threshold of a Market Economic, International Monetary Fund, Occasional Paper 107, chapter 1.

Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1989), The Grand Failure -- The Birth & Death of Communism in the 20th Century, Part I & IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

Harding, Harry, China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao, Washington, D.C.: The Brooking s Institution 1987. Chapter 3.

Heueh Tien-tung, Sung Yun-wing & Yu Jingyuan, eds. (1993), Studies on Economic Reforms and Development in the People's Republic of China, The Chinese University Press (Hong Kong) & St. Martin's Press.

Lin, Cal and Li, The China Miracle. Development Strategy and Economic Reform, The Chinese University Press. Hong Kong, 1996. Chapters 5, 6 & 7.

Nolan, Peter & Dong Fureng, (ed.) (1990), The Chinese Economy and its Future -- Achievements and Problems of Post-Mao Reform, Polity Press.

Perkins, Dwight H., "Completing China's Move to the Market," The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1994, vol. 8, no.2, pp.23-46.

Solinger, Dorothy J. (1993), China's Transition From Socialism -- Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-1990, M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Tang, Zongkun (1993) "Economic Theory and China's Reform," Chinese Social Science Quarterly, (HK), Feb.

Totten, George & Zhou Shulian, eds. (1992), China's Economic Reform -- Administering the Introduction of the Market Mechanism, Westview Press & The center for Pacific Studies, Stockholm University, stockholm.

Agriculture and Rural Policy Reforms

Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson and Harry X. Wu, "Rural Enterprises in China: Overview, Issues and Prospects," in Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson and Harry X. Wu eds., Rural Enterprises in China, St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Johnson, D. Gale The People's Republic of China, 1978-1990, ICEG, Chapters 3 and 7.

Johnson, D. Gale, "China's Rural and Agricultural Reform: Successes and Failures," manuscript, 1996.

Johnson, D. Gale, "Does China have a grain Problem?" China Economic Review, Vol. 5, No.1, Spring 1994: pp. 1 -14.

Johnson, D. Gale, 'China's Future Food Supplies: Will China Starve the World," manuscript. 1995.

Lin, Justin Yifu, "Rural Reforms and Agricultural Growth in China," American Economic Reviews, vol. 82. March 1992. pp. 34-51.

McMillan, John, John Whalley and Lijing Zhu, "The Impact of China Economic Reforms on Agricultural Productivity Growth," Journal of Political Economy, 1989, Vol. 97, No 4.

Naughton, Barry, Growing out of the Plan, 1995. Chapter 4, "Growth of the Non-State Sector. "

Robert Paarlberg, "Feeding China: A Confident View," manuscript, 1995.

Enterprise Reform

Broadman, Harry G., Meeting the Challenge of Chinese Enterprise Reform, World Bank Discussion Papers No. 283, 1995.

Jefferson, Gary H. and Thomas G. Rawski, "Enterprise Reform in Chinese Industry," The.Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp.47-71.

Lin Cal and Zhou, "Creating an Environment for Fair Competition is the Core of Enterprise Reform". in Wen and Xu (eds.) The Reformability of China's State Sector, 1997.

Naughton, Barry, "Implications of State Monopoly over Industry and Its Relaxation," Modern China. Vol. 18. No. l,  January 1992. 14-41

Woo, Wing Thye, Gang Fan, Wen Hai and Yibiao Jin, "The Efficiency and Macroeconomic Consequences of Chinese Enterprise Reform," China Economic Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1993~ pp.l53-168.

Yaohui Zhao, "The Nature of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Its Implications," in Wen and Xu (eds.) The Reformability of China's State Sector, 1997.

Zhang, Weiying, "The Reform of State-Owned Enterprises: Whither to Go," in Wen and Xu (eds.) The Reformability of China's State Sector, 1997.
 

Employment and Social Security

Hussain, Athar, "Social Security in Present-Day China and Its Reform," The American Economic Reviews Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 84, no.2, May 1994, pp.276-281.

Jefferson, Gary and Thomas Rawski, "Unemployment, Underemployment, and Employment Policy in China's Cities," Modern China, Vol. 18, No.1, January 1992, pp.42-71.

Liu, Lillian, "Social Security for State-Sector Workers in the People's Republic of China: The Reform Decade and Beyond," in China's Economic Dilemma in the 1990s, edited by the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, M.E. Sharpe, 1991, pp.270-290.
 
 

Price Reform and Tile Dismantling of Central Planning

Byrd, William A., "The Impact of the Two-Tier Plan/Market System in Chinese Industry," Journal of Comparative Economics, No. 11, pp. 295-308, 1987, also in Bruce Reynolds, ed., Chinese Economic Reform, How Far? How Fast? Academic Press, 1988.

Naughton, Barry, "China's Experience with Guidance Planning," Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 14, 743-767, 1990.

Wu, Jinglian and Renwei Zhao, "The Dual Pricing System in China's Industry," Journal of Comparative Economics, No. 11, pp. 309-318, 1987, also in Bruce Reynolds, ed., Chinese Economic Reform, How Far? How Fast? Academic Press, 1988.
 

Foreign Trade and Investment

Bell, Michael W., Hoe We Knor, and Kalpana Kochhar, China at the Threshold of a Market Economy, International Monetary Fund, Occasional Paper 107, chapter 4.

Lardy, Nicholas, "The Role of Foreign Trade and Investment in China's Economic Transition." China Quarterly. 1995 pp.1065- 1082.

 Lardy, Nicholas, China in the World Economy, Institute for International Economics, 1994. Chapters 4&5.

Orr, James, "Evolution of U.S. Trade with China," FRBNY Quarterly Review, Winter 1991 -92.

Rothman, M., D. Briscoe & R. Nacamulli (ed.) (1993), "The People's Republic of China," in Industrial Relations around the World -- Labor Relations for Multinational Compnies, Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Stoever, W., J. Yin, & X. Huang (1992), "An Analysis of the Black-Market Exchange Rate in China," Business & The Contemporary World, Autumn.
 

Fiscal Reform and Central-Local Relations

Blejer. Burton. Dunaway and Szapary, "China: Economic Reform and Macroeconomic Management," IMF Occasional Paper No. 76, 1991, pp.l2-30.

Jun Ma, "The Reform of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China," Asian Economic Journal, Volume 9, No.3, November 1995.

Wong, Christine, "Public Finance and Economic Decentralization," in Walter Galenson (ed.) China's Economic Reform, The 1990 Institute, 1993, pp. 177-196.

World Bank, China: Macroeconomic Stability in a Decentralized Economy, a World Bank Country Study, 1995, Chapter 2.
 

Financial Sector Reform

Lardy, Nicholas, "The Evolving Banking System," manuscript, 1996

Michael Spencer, Securities Markets in China, Finance and Development, June, 1995.

Yi, Gang, Money, Banking and Financial Markets in China, Westview Press, 1994.
 

Macroeconomic Stability

Bell, Michael W., Hoe We Knor, and Kalpana Kochhar, China at the Threshold of a Market Economic? International Monetary Fund, Occasional Paper 107, chapter 3.

Hwa, Er-Cheng, (1997) Softlanding in China ????

Johnson, D. Gale, "Is Agriculture a Threat to China's Growth?" Paper presented at the conference on "China: Growth and Inflation," May 10-12, 1995 in Beijing, China.

Naughton, Barry "China's Macroeconomy in Transition," China Quarterly, 1995, pp.1083-1104.

The World Bank, China: Macroeconomic Stability in a Decentralized Economy, a World Bank Country Study, 1995, Chapters 3 and 4.

The World Bank, The Chinese Economy: Fighting Inflation, Deepening Reforms (Volume I: the Main Report), Document of the World Bank, Report No. 15288-CHA, April, 1996.

Yusif, Shahid, "China's Macroeconomic Performance and Management During Transition," The Journul of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 71-93.
 

Consumption and Income Growth Since 1978

Chai, Joseph, "Consumption and Living Standards in China," China Quarterly, 1992.

Khan, Griffin Riskin and Zhao, "Household Incomes and its Distribution in China," China Quarterly, No 132, 1992.

Yueh, Y.Y., "Food Consumption and Peasant Incomes in the Post-Mao Era," China Quarterly, No. 116, 1988.
 

Widening Income Gaps and the Future of Reform

Harding, Harry, China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1987, Chapters 8-10.

Johnson, D. Gale, 'Growing Urban-Rural Inequality and Implications for the Future of Guangdong," manuscript, 1994

Loraine West and Christine Wong, 'Fiscal Decentralization and Growing Regional Disparities in Rural China: Some Evidence in the Provision of Social Services," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No.4, 1995.

Wang Xiaoqiang & Bai Nanfeng (1990), The Poverty of Plenty, St. Martin's Press, New York.

Relevance of China's Experience to Other Economies under Reform

Sachs, Jeffrey D., Wing Thye Woo, "Structural Factors in the Economic Reforms of China, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union," manuscript, 1996??

Naughton, Barry, Growing out of the Plan, 1995. Introduction: "China's Economic Reform in Comparative Perspective," and Chapter 9: "Lessons and Limitations of the Chinese Experience."

The Future of China's Economy

The World Bank, (1997) China 2020 -- Development Challenges in the New Century.