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The industrialization of rural China

"A welcome addition to a growing literature, this book highlights the economic and social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a wealth of new data it shows that while many rural industries were initially inefficient, the workers employed in them acquired skills making the creation of a globally competitive Chinese industrial sector possible"--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : illustrations
9780191534713, 9780191706073, 9781435623248, 0191534714, 0191706078, 143562324X
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Rural industrialization in the Maoist era
Rural industrialization after 1978
The role of policy change
The learning hypothesis
Learning to industrialize in the Maoist era
The national evidence
Jiangsu
Sichuan
Guangdong