Investigation of the rural economic policy of 1978 with particular reference to income distribution among the peasants. Taxes, investment, prices, quotas, production and marketing in agriculture. Year-to-year increases of total peasant income 1978-81. A new array of economic problems created by...

According to the author, the Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958-'59 was the most intense mobilizational phase in the history of the PRC and the most concentrated expression of the utopian Maoist developmental model. Focusing on a single province, Liaoning, he examines the role played by the...