caa a22 4500 388104309 CHVBK 20180307125332.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305741000003362 doi S0305741000003362 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305741000003362 Dernberger Robert F. The People's Republic of China at 50: The Economy [Elektronische Daten] [Robert F. Dernberger] The dynamic growth of the Chinese economy over the past 50 years under the policies and administrative management of the People's Republic of China must rank among the most important developments of the 20th century. When I began my serious study of China's economy in the early 1950s, Western economists were preoccupied with a single question, "how are they ever going to feed all those Chinese?” Today, after 50 years in power, we must respect and even admire not only their ability to feed a population that has more than doubled in size, but also to provide the Chinese consumer with watches, washing machines, sewing machines, colour television sets, and tape and video recorders. A small, but significant and rapidly expanding, share of China's consumers is using mobile phones, computers and even private cars. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 606-615 0305-7410 159<606 1999 159 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000003362 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000003362 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dernberger Robert F. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 606-615 0305-7410 159<606 1999 159 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge