Bøger af Chu-yuan Cheng

This is an autobiography of a Chinese American economist. Professor Chu-yuan Cheng is a teacher, a researcher, a writer, and, after all, a patriot. Born in 1925 in mainland China, Dr. Cheng survived WWII and the Chinese Civil War in the 1930s and 1940s. As a political refugee from China, Dr. Cheng came to America in the late 1950s. Since then, he has been a highly productive writer of over 50 books and thousands of articles and essays. As a member of the Nationalist Party, he has made enormous effort to China's reunification.

Chinas Economic Development, 1950-2014: Fundamental Changes and Long-Term Prospects is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese economic development from 1950-2014 focusing on current world-wide attention to the economic reform. Chu-yuan Cheng covers a wide range of topics, including the cultural effects and ideological influences on Chinas economic development; the process of Chinas transition from a planned to a market economy, leadership changes and the root of the Cultural Revolution; the machine-building industry and scientific and engineering manpower in China; Chinas new development plans in the twenty-first century and the process and consequence of the Quiet Revolution; the international economic relations including the U.S.-China, Sino-Japanese economic relations and access to WTO; economic relations across the Taiwan Strait and the formation of the Greater China Economic Sphere; and the long-term development prospect of the Chinese economy in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. The Economy of Communist China reviews selected aspects of this economic transformation.