The material translated here consists of selected chapters from a much longer study conducted in 1986 by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and released for internal circulation in January 1987.sup1/sup The study is divided into seven sections as follows: (1) The general overview, pp. 3-33;...

The 25 selections translated here range chronologically from June 1980 to January 1987 and cover a wide variety of issues, encompassing conditions in both urban and rural settings. The sources used are also diverse, including provincial and municipal newspapers (11 selections), an important...

The nine selections translated here cover several crucial issues in the debate on China's microeconomic reform in 1985-86. Regrettably, space considerations allow only a small portion of such material to be carried here. We focus on the debates on the bankruptcy law (selections 1 and 2), on...

The seven selections in this issue are all concerned with various aspects of China's employment system. The earliest piece, selection 3 from 1982, deals with the idingti/i or "standing in" policy, in which children were allowed to assume jobs in the enterprises of their parents upon the latter's...

The eight articles translated here cover a variety of issues stemming from China's almost twenty-year experience with reform. They are linked together by some commonalities, however. First, they reflect the debates within China over the effects of the reforms to date. Which results should be...

The nine selections translated in this issue are all broadly concerned with China's foreign economic relations. The first part of the issue addresses the relationship between attracting foreign investment and protecting China's national industries; the last part of the issue deals with...

The fourteen selections translated here were published in China between November 15, 1997, and July 8, 1998. Because all but two appeared in 1998, by which time the main parameters of the "Asian financial crisis" had become clear, they should provide a reasonably accurate picture of the...