Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
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Trim: 9¼ x 6¼
978-0-8476-9846-2 • Hardback • October 1999 • $154.00 • (£119.00)
Anita Chan is an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow hosted by The Australian National University and co-editor of the China Journal. Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University.
Comparing Vietnam and China: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Exalting the Latecomer State: Intellectuals and the State During the Chinese and Vietnamese Reforms
Chapter 2: From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam and China Compared
Chapter 3: Asian Socialism’s Open Doors: Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh City
Chapter 4: Agrarian Transformations in China and Vietnam
Chapter 5: Wealth and Power in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern Vietnam
Chapter 6: Political Change in China and Vietnam: Coping with the Consequences of Economic Reform
Chapter 7: Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990s
Chapter 8: Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence
A wonderfully successful effort at collaboration that not only fulfills its methodological goals, but which is full of insights. . . . This is an extremely worthwhile book that specialists and teachers alike will find very useful. I recommend it highly.
— Journal of Asian Studies
As a comparative reader, the book has much to offer in the way of content. Each chapter covers a particular aspect of the transitions in China and Vietnam, in which certain leitmotifs stand out across essays.
— China Review International