This volume, which brings together papers from a seminar held in Beijing in 1996, contains contributions written by Chinese participants as well as by visiting experts from the West. The different experience of the several authors is represented in the unique balance of the book: all the Chinese...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - The Energy and Environmental Dimensionsof Cars in China -- 3 - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: The Auto Industryand Economic Development -- 4 - Foreign Technology in the Development ofChina's Automotive Sector -- 5 - Beijing Jeep -- 6 - Shanghai GM -- 7 -...