The paper deals with following topics: early conceptions of trade in Communist China and the need for theoretical changes, self-reliance as the guiding principle in China's foreign trade during Mao's era, controversies in the country over unequal trade, comparison between the Chinese and the...

Since the 1980s, there has been a global wave of transfer of state assets to private hands. China is a relatively late participant of this worldwide trend, yet, in the last decade it has emerged as one of the largest privatizing countries. Shu-Yun Ma argues that China’s privatization is not...