The emergence of China as a development actor across the Global South has raised significant questions regarding the … extent to which China presents new development opportunities to its compatriots in the South. My aim is to reflect and to … parse out the experiences and policies that have shaped China's development to assess how it can inform the field of …

The historical background and contemporary setting -- Mao, Stalin, and transforming China's economy: 1948-52 -- Stalin …'s short course and Mao's socialist economic transformation of China in the early 1950s -- Mao's formulation of the general …-December 1953 -- Conclusion: Mao, Stalin, and China's road to socialism. …