rything from more meat in their diet of rice and wheat to speculative investments and foreign travel, they have grabbed each new chance to make money. In the countryside, peasants have taken control of collective land and property. They have planted cash crops despite official pressure to grow grain. They have pooled their labor and saving to start millions of dynamic rural factories (2).
They have done this and much more, and what emerges from this book is the dedication of the people themselves to reform because they have seen the failure of the socialist structures of the past five decades and have now tasted the possibility of something very different. If the reforms are to be effective, they have to be embraced by the people. What this book shows is that the people have so embraced the idea of c
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