Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies…

Good governance is necessary for effective public administration and delivery of public goods and services. This is an important issue for all countries, but in…

This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China. It shows how the global…

In recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development. However, contemporary China is still faced with the…

This book examines China’s response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since. The crisis caused…

On July 1^st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10^th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been…

China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than…

Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in…

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank…

This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to…