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pt. 1. Economic growth -- part 2. Human development issues -- part 3. Monetary and fiscal policy issues -- part 4. Sectoral issues -- part 5. International trade and financial flows -- part 6. Environmental issues.

1. The characteristics of China's traditional economy / Man-houng Lin -- 2. The late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China : a period of great institutional transformation / Kenneth S. Chan -- 3. The centrally planned command economy (1949-84) / Dwight H. Perkins -- 4. China's economic...