01165pab a2200169 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Li Xing Socialist foundations of market reform: assessing Chinese past 1999 p.3457-465 4 Dec This article attempts to provide explanations and arguments to posit that Maoist socialism was a great leap forward in terms of its objectives and overall achievements despite heavy human cost as well as miscellaneous policy failures and dislocations. Maoist socialism should be analysed and conceptualised from an international geopolitical perspective in understanding the limitations and constraints on China's development environment, strategies and alternatives. More importantly, it paved a solid foundation indispensable to the rapid ongoing economic advance which is largely due to the linkage with rather than the departure from the strong comparative advantages accumulated during the period of socialism. Reproduced Socialism Economic and social development Economic and Political Weekly 43452 43452 43452 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 34, Issue no: 49 AR43847 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR