Scott Rozelle (Stanford University), Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty years. The Chinese Communist Party’s gradualist approach to reform was not inevitable. What were the alternative routes and why were they abandoned? What new obstacles for further Chinese economic development may change the CCP's future course? In this seminar two prominent experts on Chinese economic politics will present their new books on reform era development and how these policies have influenced contemporary China.