reference guide to China's financial system. With eighteen chapters, the handbook features overviews on the banking sector …-the core of China's financial system and the key channel for implementing China's monetary policy-China's ongoing reforms, and … real authoritative volume of literature in the field, and will shed extensive new light on the links between China …

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged … is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by recession or weak economic activity, commodity and asset price deflation … industrial world since the 1930s. In Japan's Great Stagnation, experts on the Japanese economy consider key questions about the …

"This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a … both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own … notable also for placing China's economy in interesting comparative contexts, discussing it in relation to other transitional …