This book collects essays from Chinese economic sage who was the mastermind of the reform and opening and persistent champion of market-driven development. In the essays, he outlines his vision of the systemic reform needed for today's China, from rule of law to completion of the market system...

Introduction -- I Current issues : what kind of 21st-century economy will emerge from China's reforms? -- II Biography : living history in a multi-generational community of socially engaged intellectuals -- III Shaping China's economic reform -- IV Broadening the reform agenda