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Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 China's Economic Performance, Prospects, and Challenges -- 1.1. China's 40 years of 40-fold growth -- 1.2. Macrocycles, investment rates, and reforms -- 1.2.1. Gradual increases in investment's share in GDP -- 1.2.2. A cyclical fast-slow mechanism raised investment's GDP share -- 1.2.3. Cyclical factors and the timing of market reforms -- 1.2.4. Sources of independent productivity gains -- 1.3. Necessary institutions and strategies -- 1.4. Prospects and challenges -- Chapter 2 China's Pre-1978 Economy: Failures and Accomplishments -- 2.1. A repeat of China's age-old dynastic cycle? -- 2.2. Modern China before the 1978 start of economic reforms -- 2.2.1. Pre-1949 China -- 2.2.2. From 1949 to 1958 -- 2.2.2.1. The Korean War -- 2.2.2.2. Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 2.2.2.3. Mainland China -- 2.2.3. The 1958-1970 period -- 2.2.4. The 1970-1976 period -- 2.2.5. 1976-1978: The period after Mao but before reforms -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 1978-1989: Early Pro-market Restructuring -- 3.1. From the 1978 beginning: A bumpy start to structural reconfiguration -- 3.2. The one-child policy -- 3.3. Urban reforms -- 3.3.1. Reforms in urban finance -- 3.3.2. Profit-based enterprise management reforms -- 3.3.3. Labor reforms -- 3.3.4. Higher-education reforms -- 3.4. Rural reforms -- 3.4.1. Family contract farming reforms -- 3.4.1.1. Communes and early efforts to revive family farms -- 3.4.1.2. Mao only tolerated family farming in drought emergencies -- 3.4.1.3. High-level post-Mao resistance to family farming -- 3.4.1.4. Deng's surreptitious start to family farming reforms -- 3.4.1.5. Anhui drought in 1978 helped promote reforms -- 3.4.1.6. Shifting national policies affecting family contract farming -- 3.4.1.7. National-level debates on Dazhai and family farming.

Despite China's strong current financial and economic position, a focus on China can help highlight how this current global crisis is just another step in the evolution and improvement of the world's governance systems.China cannot make the mistake of viewing this crisis as a sign of weakness in the political and economic systems that have emerged over centuries in the world's most scientifically and commercially advanced nations. Those systems are still works in progress, and China needs urgently to learn as much as it can from them—including the lessons they are gleaning or hopefully will glean from this current financial and economic crisis.