Globalization and the economics of radical change in China -- Setting the stage : a primer to the study of China's economic reforms -- Changing social institutions -- China in the global economy -- Environment, pollution, and renewable energy -- Changing life chances -- The rule of law and...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...