Asia and the wider region. It is a timely review of an important issue which is now on top of regional and international …

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness … growth and social change in China during the last quarter of a century. Contagious Capitalism contends that FDI … liberalization played several roles in the process of China's reforms. First, it placed competitive pressure on the state sector to …

reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing … engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable … Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and …