This book begins, and perhaps should end, with an excerpt from the writings of the late eminent Chinese scholar, Fung Yu-lan (or Feng Youlan) (1895-1990), who wrote, "The ancient Chinese culture is an inherent factor determining the Chinese style." If the latter enunciation of Fung Yu-lan stirs...

Do exporters and foreign-controlled establishments pay their workers higher wages than nonexporters and domestic-controlled establishments? This paper draws on an employer-employee dataset to explore the existence of exporter and foreign-controlled wage premiums in the Canadian manufacturing...