Markets under Mao: measuring underground activity in the early prc/ Adam K Frost, Zeren Li
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The China Quarterly, Number 258, June 2024, pg. 309-328Summary: This article develop and analyse novel datasets to retrace the persistence and scale of underground market activity in Maoist China. Even after the “socialist transformation” of the Chinese economy was ostensibly complete, Chinese citizens continued participating in “underground market activity,” i.e. private acts of exchange that occurred outside of systems of planned allocation and distribution and which were intentionally concealed from the state.
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This article develop and analyse novel datasets to retrace the persistence and scale of underground market activity in Maoist China. Even after the “socialist transformation” of the Chinese economy was ostensibly complete, Chinese citizens continued participating in “underground market activity,” i.e. private acts of exchange that occurred outside of systems of planned allocation and distribution and which were intentionally concealed from the state.
UNDERGROUND MARKET ACTIVITY, MAOIST CHINA, NEWARTICLS
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