"Examines Chinese urbanization and industrialization strategies for a model petroleum city, Daquing, during the early years of the People's Republic. It concerns the politics of building, the pursuit of food, energy and resources, and the everyday lives of the working men and women who inhabited...

"Over the past three decades, China's economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China's enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to...

China and the new international order / edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian -- China's opening society : the non-state sector and governance / edited by Zheng Yongnian and Joseph Fewsmith -- Zhao Ziyang and China's political future / edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne -- Hainan -...