The document contains the Introduction chapter to "Private Law in China and Taiwan: Economic and Legal Anaylses", Cambridge University Press, 2016. Editors: Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen, Wen-yeu Wang. The book covers contract, torts, property, and business organization laws in China and Taiwan. The...

In many ways, China is the new frontier for entrepreneurship; perceived to be: a logical primary source of economical manufacturing, raw materials, component parts, and as a major end market. China may also represent the most likely future competition for many American industries as well as our...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

This article reviews China's land tenure system, which is featured with differential treatment of rural and urban citizens with respect to three types of land tenure: urban land tenure, arable land tenure and rural residential land tenure. With the urban residents fully participated in the...

Lack of transfer rights for collectively-owned land has led to inefficient land use and rising urban-rural income inequality in China, which calls for property rights reform in the rural area. This paper studies the land titling experiment in Chengdu since 2008. Based on field surveys and...

This book offers a detailed account of how the Chinese real estate market actually operates in practice, from both legal and business perspectives. My goals are twofold. First, I seek to establish and describe how the Chinese real estate market, with so few written laws, actually functions. How...

This article commences with a brief history of China's intellectual property policy and international relations over the past 150 years. China's engagement with the western construct of intellectual property rights is strongly aligned with China's international trade relations. In particular,...

In the process of urbanization, China needs to expropriate more and more collective-owned lands in order to satisfy the need of city construction and development. However, when the collective-owned lands are expropriated currently, peasants get very low compensation for their loss in...

This appendix provides the complete list of sample firms and the robustness checks results discussed in the paper, Industrial Policy and Asset Prices: Stock Market Reactions to Made In China 2025 Policy Announcements, found here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521006

Appendix available here:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3525571.We study the link between industrial policy and asset prices by using the Made in China 2025 industrial policy, announced in May 2015, as an external shock. We track Chinese firms and U.S. firms in ten...