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This article attempts to present the impression made by Chinese communism in Hong Kong during the germinal period of the Chinese Communist Movement from 1921, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded, to 1934, when the communist presence in Hong Kong and Guangdong had virtually disappeared and communist activities were not to be revived until shortly before the outbreak of China's war with Japan. The early perception of communism and its importance have to be understood in the context of the dual society of the colony, with the British as the ruler and the Chinese as the ruled in almost totally separate communities.

The emergence of Teng Hsiao-p'ing and his closest allies as pre-eminent powerholders in mainland China in the early 1980s was taken by many in the West to herald an era of major reformism in Chinese politics because of the Teng faction's longstanding hostility to Maoist radicalism and because of the defeat of the "leftists" associated with Hua Kuo-feng and the declining power of the "veteral cadres" who opposed any significant political and economic change. The author seeks to evaluate the question of what these reforms will likely to bring by comparing mainland China to the well-established communist regime in the USSR. The author opines that the centrepiece of Teng's reforms so has been in the economic realm. (DÜI-Sen)