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Early twentieth-century China was characterised by a dilapidated Confucian state at the mercy of foreign powers which disintegrated into revolution, warlordism, corruption and despair. Yet there was said to exist pockets of dynamism in a sluggish economy, experiments at modernisation within an ossified patriarchal bureaucracy and an ‘Asiatic’ economy within a growing network of market relations.
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© 1994 Bill Brugger and Stephen Reglar
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Brugger, B., Reglar, S. (1994). China Under Mao. In: Politics, Economy and Society in Contemporary China. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23329-8_2
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