Rising China in the changing world economy

1. Rising China and its integration with the changing world economy / Wei Xia and Liming Wang -- 2. Rising China : its strength and problems / Gregory C. Chow -- 3. Evolution after revolution : the Chinese 'claiming state' between history and textbook economics / Giuseppe Gabusi -- 4. Continental drift : China and the global economic crisis / Sangaralingam Ramesh -- 5. Chinese MNCs in Latin America / Gaston Fornes and Alan Butt-Philip -- 6. An exploration of pyramidal business groups in China / Dylan Sutherland, Lutao Ning and Jing Wang -- 7. Sustaining the growth of China's SMEs through ICT : recent experience of policy initiatives and their implementation / David H. Brown and Qi Wang -- 8. Fiscal reform, ownership restructuring and corporate objectives in Chinese state-owned enterprises / Da Teng -- 9. Cultural distance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions of China : empirical evidence from the electricity industry / Lei Wang -- 10. R&D, direct technology transfer and productivity growth : evidence from Chinese manufacturing industries / Yanbing Wu -- 11. The distribution of income and well-being in rural China : a survey of panel data sets, studies and new directions / Xi Chen -- 12. Determinants of China's inter-regional equalization of basic public services / Xuebing Tang -- 13. Does real effective exchange rate volatility affect foreign direct investment? : evidence from China / Min Ye and Siyue Liu -- 14. Cost efficiency of banks in China : a stochastic frontier analysis / Yizhe Dong -- 15. The effect of historical events on the speed of price evolution indexed by an operational time for China's futures market / Ren Zhang, Youwei Li and Donal McKillop -- 16. Poverty in Shenzhen / Stefan Gravemeyer, Thomas Gries and Jinjun Xue.