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100			_aLi Xing
245			_aSocialist foundations of market reform: assessing Chinese past
260			_c1999
300			_ap.3457-465
362			_a4 Dec
520			_aThis 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
650			_aSocialism
650			_aEconomic and social development
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a43452
999			_c43452 _d43452