Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Rural Industrialization in the Maoist Era
3: Rural Industrialization After 1978
4: The Role of Policy Change
5: The Learning Hypothesis
6: Learning to Industrialize in the Maoist Era
7: The National Evidence
8: Jiangsu
9: Sichuan
10: Guangdong
11: Conclusion
Appendix 1 Estimation of GDP
Appendix 2 Industrial GVA in Sichuan
Appendix 3 County Industrial Output in Guangdong
Appendix 4 The Definition of Rural Industry

About the Author

Chris Bramall was trained in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he completed a PhD on the Chinese economy in 1989. He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, between 1990 and 2000, before moving to the School of East Asian Studies at Sheffield University, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He has researched extensively on the twentieth century Chinese.