Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Charts, Tables, Boxes and Appendixes -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Development, Resource Governance and Globalisation: The Growth of China's Resources Companies -- 2 Resource Security and Corporate Social...

The drafting of a new bankruptcy law for China proved to be a lengthy and agonizing process, but a new Enterprise Bankruptcy Law was finally enacted in 2006; China had reviewed the experiences of other countries and sought to introduce a new law that suited its socio-economic and political...

Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) accounted for 84% by value of Chinese foreign investment in Australia. At the same time, SOEs have served as national ‘champions' working for the advancement of China's national interests. In some ways they have much in common with sovereign wealth funds....

China's corporate insolvency law regime was in a state of transition for a relatively long period of time, with the major, but temporary, body of legislation dealing specifically with enterprise bankruptcy having been passed in 1986 . The inadequacy of China's existing insolvency law become...

China's insolvency regime has been in a state of transition for a relatively long period of time, although a new Bankruptcy Law was finally to be passed in 2005. The draft of the Bankruptcy Law of the People's Republic of China (herein after referred to as “Draft Bankruptcy Law”, went to the...

Western economists have argued that the legal environment for the protection of minority shareholders and mechanisms for restricting the expropriation of minority shareholders will be important in determining the size and extent of a country's capital markets. In China, the protection of...