While Deng Xiaoping garners much of the credit for China's economic modernization, Kueh (economics and business administration, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China) argues that Deng's reforms were made materially possible in large measure by Mao's pursuit of industrialization and modernization. Indeed, Deng's open-door strategy itself can be traced to Mao's economic reorientation towards Western Europe and Japan following the collapse of Sino-Soviet relations in 1961, according to Kueh, who explores the economic interplay between the economic policies of Mao and Deng in a series of 13 essays that are organized into three sections that, broadly speaking, focus individually on the new agriculture policy program of Deng as it related to industrialization, the industrialization strategy and Mao's approach to dealing with fundamental economic constraints on industrialization, and the quest of accession to the World Trade Organization while maintaining the pursuit of an independent and integrated industrial system in China. Annotation ⓒ2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)