Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980

Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
	Introduction
Part One: The Framework for Commerce in the People’s Republic
	1. The Planned Economy and Competition for Goods
	2. Policy Conflict in Chinese Commerce, 1949-1979
	3. Technological Underdevelopment: A Case Study of Corruption in the Southwest Countryside, 1949-1952
Part Two: The Three Central Issues in Commercial Policy in China
	4. The Private Sector: The Regulation of Small Rural Traders
	Two Approaches to the Regulation of Small Private Commerce
	The Socialist Transformation of Small Rural Trade, 1954-1956:
	Methods and Political Forces
	The Continuing Process of Socialist Transformation and the Small Merchants,
	1957-1980
	5. Commerce and Industry: Strains and Models
	Structural Bases for Antagonism between Industry and Commerce
	Three Models for Connecting Industry and Commerce
	6. Commerce and Agriculture: Fights over “Free” Markets
Conclusion: The Pattern, Shape, and Dilemmas of Chinese Business under Socialism
Appendices
	Rationing
	A Comparison of the Organizational Outcomes of the Socialist Transformation Campaign in Various Economic Sectors
	Forms and Procedures in the Transformation of Wholesale and Large Retail Trade
	Forms and Procedures in the Transformation of Small Retail Trade
	Vicissitudes of Socialist Commerce, 1950—1980
	Prices (in yuan) for Items of Daily Life in Six Provinces, Early 1975
	Ministers of Commerce, 1949—1982: Relevant Biographical Data
Glossary