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The Economic Development of Communist China, 1949-1958

The Economic Development of Communist China, 1949-1958

By T. J. Hughes and D. E. T. Luard

Oxford University Press (for the Royal Institute of International Affairs), 1960, 223 pp.

A concise account, based largely on Chinese official sources, of the economic development of mainland China during the first decade of Communist rule. The authors were formerly in the British Treasury and Foreign Service.