Stephan Feuchtwang Senior lecturer in Sociology and Principal of the China Research Unit at The City University, London; co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983). Athar Hussain Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Keele; co-author of Marxism and the Agrarian Question (London, 1981) and co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983)