China’s economic boom over the last two decades has taken many analysts by surprise, given the ongoing role of central … bring about greater openness of the financial market. To better understand China’s recent economic performance, this volume … whose purpose is to maintain control of many segments of the economy. China’s economic system, the contributors find, also …

. Studying 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, the authors argue that the engine of China’s economic miracle … private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government …. How did private enterprise overcome these initial obstacles, to become the engine of China’s economic miracle? Where did …

As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this timely book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial … institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank … notes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Focusing on the two leading British banks in …

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the … recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and … concern in the United States and beyond. While some analysts have warned of the potential pitfalls of China's rise—the loss of …

ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou … understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions. …

This book incorporates a selection of fourteen revised papers presented to the International Conference on "China …

China has long claimed the ownership of a network of widely-scattered islands and their surrounding waters and … resources in the South China Sea. These claims overlap in a substantial way with those of at least three ASEAN countries …: Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. To this day, the South China Sea has remained one of the region’s most dangerous …

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 …