Mostly papers of a conference held at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March 1980, in Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references.

The transition to socialism in China / Mark Selden and Victor Lippit -- Cooperation and conflict : cooperative and collective formation in China's countryside / Mark Selden -- Village in transition / William Hinton -- Socialist development in China / Victor Lippit -- Maoism, Titoism, Stalinism : some origins and consequences of the Maoist theory of the socialist transition / Edward Friedman -- Some ironies of the Maoist legacy in industry / Andrew Walder -- Accumulation, technology, and China's economic development / Kojima Reiitsu -- National agricultural policy : the Dazhai model and local change in the post-Mao era / Tang Tsou, Marc Blecher, and Mitch Meisner -- Market, Maoism, and economic reform in China / Carl Riskin.