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...

The eleven selections translated here all relate to the growing inequalities that have surfaced in China during the reform period. They cover individual inequalities, regional inequalities, and the rural-urban gap. Since all but one of the articles appeared in restricted circulation journals the...