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Observers have been predicting the demise of China's Communist state since Mao's death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC.

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Mao’s Invisible Hand is one of those books that make one feel good about scholarship. It describes inner workings of Chinese Communist society about which few nonexperts know anything—it may even surprise the experts—and it will interest anyone professionally interested in China. Its central purpose is to explain how China has escaped the disintegration of other Communist states. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Review of Books *
This is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books published in recent years on the critical questions about China’s developmental path and the role of history. -- Chen Xi * China Beat *
One of the most sophisticated works of this sort. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Miller-McCune.com *

Maos Invisible Hand

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    A Paperback / softback by Sebastian Heilmann, Elizabeth J. Perry, Jae Ho Chung

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      Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center
      Published 1 May 2011
      ISBN-13 9780674060630
      978-0674060630
      ISBN-10 0674060636
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      Geography Constitution: government and the state Far-left political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Observers have been predicting the demise of China's Communist state since Mao's death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC.

      Trade Review
      Mao’s Invisible Hand is one of those books that make one feel good about scholarship. It describes inner workings of Chinese Communist society about which few nonexperts know anything—it may even surprise the experts—and it will interest anyone professionally interested in China. Its central purpose is to explain how China has escaped the disintegration of other Communist states. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Review of Books *
      This is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books published in recent years on the critical questions about China’s developmental path and the role of history. -- Chen Xi * China Beat *
      One of the most sophisticated works of this sort. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Miller-McCune.com *

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