Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Review of Development Economics 9 (2005) 1, pp. 87-106
The paper constructs and analyzes a long-run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s...
