Opportunities and challenges in China's economic development -- Why the scientific and industrial revolutions bypasses China -- The great humiliation and the socialist revolution -- The comparative advantage-defying, catching-up strategy and the traditional economic system -- Enterprise...

"This book tells the story of Taiwan's economic revolution--how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled...