Economic reform in China
分析中国1978年以来的经济改革，认为其本质是从苏联式国家资本主义向私人资本主义的过渡，农村改革恢复了革命前的生产关系，城市改革则催生了新的资本家阶层，同时官方意识形态从马克思主义转向以现代化为合法性基础。
Since 1978, China has undergone a series of radical economic reforms which officially constitute a logical step in the ‘initial stage of socialism’, and imply a transition from central planning to a mixed economy. The author argues that in fact the transition taking place is from a soviet type of state capitalism towards private capitalism. The rural reforms involve the restoration of pre‐revolutionary production relations, while the urban reforms introduce new capitalists drawn from the ranks of the state administration, to the detriment of the poor and unskilled. There has been a retreat from Marxism as the official ideology, and the legitimacy of the regime is now based on modernisation as a national goal.