Hainan is the forgotten island of Chinese political and economic reforms. A poor and desolate place to live in the late 1970s, Hainan became a symbol of the ambitious reform ideas of the Zhao Ziyang/Hu Yaobang era - and their ultimate failure. Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard has now published a monograph, Hainan: State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province, addressing the recent history of Hainan as a shortlived reform experiment. His book is an excellent study of provincial and local developments in China in the era of opening-up and a timely reminder of the huge diversity that characterizes the PRC.
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机译：海南是中国政治和经济改革的被遗忘的岛屿。 1970年代后期，海南是一个贫穷而荒凉的地方，成为赵紫阳/胡耀邦时代雄心勃勃的改革思想及其最终失败的象征。凯杰德·埃里克·布罗德斯高（Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard）现在出版了一部专着《海南：中国省的国家，社会与商业》，作为一个短暂的改革实验，阐述了海南的近期历史。他的书很好地研究了开放时代中国在中国各省和地方的发展，并适时地提醒了中国的特点。
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