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“On China's Descending Spiral”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Alexander Eckstein ,
G. F. Hudson ,
L. La Dany ,
Choh-Ming Li ,
Michael Lindsay ,
Roderick MacLeish ,
Frank Robertson ,
Kenneth R. Walker ,
Richard L. Walker  and
Yuan-Li Wu
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The China Quarterly , Volume 12 , December 1962 , pp. 19 - 53
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1 Report on Food Situation (Tokyo: Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, 11 14, 1945).Google Scholar

2 I am indebted to Mr. David Bau for calling these facts to my attention, documentary support for which can be found in Food Position of Japan for the Rice Year 1946 (Tokyo: SCAP, 1946), p. 6.Google Scholar

1 Since the above was written, China has launched serious military operations against India. Foreign war as a distraction from domestic crisis was a solution which Stalin did not venture to seek in 1933. It should be a great help to Mao in maintaining his leadership—provided, of course, that the operations are successful.

1 “The Dismissal of Marshal P'eng Teh-huai,” The China Quarterly, No. 8.

2 This article was completed OD October 20.

1 NCNA, 05 16, 1962.Google Scholar

1 See, for instance, “An Interpretation of the Industrial Cutback in Communist China,” by this author in Current Scene, Vol. I, No. 9, Hong Kong, 08 8, 1961.Google Scholar

2 Could it be that the recent armed invasion of India is designed to convince the West by a display of strength that the power of Communist China has not been impaired by the economic crisis and that a “hands off China” policy should indeed be pursued.