Cover; Title page; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; About the Authors ; Dialogue 1: "Whither China?" in a New Context ; Dialogue 2: Why Should the Soviet-. Type Economic System Be Reformed?; Dialogue 3: The Initial Emergence of Reform in 1956; Dialogue 4: Reforms of the Economic Administration System during the Maoist Era; Dialogue 5: The Failure of State-. Owned Enterprise Reforms under Market Socialism. Dialogue 6: Rural Household Contracting Leads to the Incremental Reform StrategyDialogue 7: The Sudden Rise of the Private Sector; Dialogue 8: Opening to the World: A Driver of Domestic Reform; Dialogue 9: The Role of the "Dual-. Track" System and Its Consequences; Dialogue 10: Overall Promotion of Reform: A New Phase; Dialogue 11: Redefining Property Rights; Dialogue 12: Financial Institutions; Dialogue 13: Returning to Public Finance; Dialogue 14: The Long and Bumpy Road to a Social-. Security System; Dialogue 15: Economic Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Policies. Dialogue 16: Unfinished Market-. Oriented ReformsDialogue 17: Without Political Reform, Economic Reform Will Not Succeed; Dialogue 18: Difficulties in Shifting the Growth Model; Dialogue 19: Why Did China Become a Rent-. Seeking Society?; Dialogue 20: Restarting the Reform Agenda; Index.