"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 …

on the world's economies, including those of China, the United States, Japan, Korea, India, and others. First appearing … a range of questions about the global economy. Wolf discusses the paradoxes and puzzles within China's political economy … economic inequality and where its principal sources may truly lay, China's currency and the continuing controversy about …