This book is the first of a series which makes available to an English-speaking audience the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of reform. The series provides an inside view of China's economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many...

1. Introduction -- 2. A letter to comrades Deng Xiaoping and Li Xiannian -- 3. A practice-based review of more than two decades of economic work -- 4. Prefaces and postscripts to China's socialist economy -- 5. Problems discovered while investigating Shanghai's economic restructuring -- 6....