There is no consensus on China in Russia. Our managers call it a reliable strategic partner. And at the domestic level, vague fears are widespread about the Chinese "creeping expansion", which may end with the loss of the Far Eastern region for us. But when it comes to China's economic rise, the prevailing sentiment is one of admiration mixed with envy. Indeed, it is difficult to contain such emotions when you learn from the press that in a country whose gigantic population two and a half decades ago dragged out a half-starved existence, the economy is growing at a mind-boggling pace of 10-11% per year. Such sentiments are fueled by statements from Communist Party leaders who claim that if Russia had followed the Chinese path (i.e., under firm party leadership), it could have avoided the upheavals of the Perestroika era and Yeltsin's reforms. In the 1990s, we were constantly called upon to make extensive use of the Chinese experience of economic reforms. And even today, some publicists (to a lesser extent professional Sinologists) continue to sing about China's achievements. Where can a student or even a graduate student studying the economy of the Middle State go in such an atmosphere? Of course, many serious monographs have been published on various aspects of the socio-economic development of the PRC. But there are no university-level textbooks. However, some provincial universities produced manuals with the participation of Chinese authors. But such works can hardly be called objective. They followed the propaganda line pursued by Beijing. Against this background, the publication of the course of lectures by V. G. Gelbras "Economics of the People's Republic of China" by the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Gumanitarii. 2007. 428 p.). The author tracks the formation and development of the PRC economy from the very moment of its proclamation in 1949 to the present day. This approach gives the reader the opp ... Читать далее