This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th … century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and …

. Introduction: Rethinking the Chinese Developmental Miracle -- Part I. Origins -- 2. Economic Institutional Change in Post-Mao China …: Reflections on the Triggering, Orienting, and Sustaining Mechanisms -- 3. The Role of Property Rights in China's Rural Reforms and …5. Migration in China in the Reform Era: Characteristics, Consequences, and Implications -- 6. Social Transformations …

Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he … was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a … planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978. This paper provides answers to the questions: Why was China trapped in …