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1. China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth

   Edited by Richard Sanders, Chen Yang

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   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 at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

   By Biliang Hu

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   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 the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focusing in particular on...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Political Future of Hong Kong

   Democracy within communist China

   By Kit Poon

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   On July 1st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been a bumpy ride for both the Hong Kong people and the central leaders in China. In fact, in 2003 Beijing had already succumbed to public pressure within the fairly...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Multinationals, Globalisation and Indigenous Firms in China

   By Chunhang Liu

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   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 business environment has undergone profound changes since the early 1990s, leading to an explosion of merger and acquisitions activity and consequent...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. China's Development Challenges

   Economic Vulnerability and Public Sector Reform

   By Richard Schiere

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor. It demonstrates how in China many of the recent reforms to the public sector, such as decentralisation from central...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Chinese Banking Industry

   Lessons from History for Today's Challenges

   By Yuanyuan Peng

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   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 of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949. Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Thirty Years of China's Reform

   Edited by Wang Mengkui

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Rising China in the Changing World Economy

   Edited by Liming Wang

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and potentially the largest in the foreseeable future. As one of the first major economies pulling out of recession and the last remaining major socialist country in the...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. China's Road to Peaceful Rise

   Observations on its Cause, Basis, Connotation and Prospect

   By Zheng Bijian

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   Zheng Bijian has been one of the most influential thinkers and policy formulators in China during its reform period. In the early 1990s he worked with Deng Xiaoping collating and publishing Deng’s speeches and as vice president of the Party School gave top priority to ensuring that members of...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. China's Industrial Policies and the Global Business Revolution

    The Case of the Domestic Appliance Industry

    By Ling Liu

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

    As China has blended market reforms with comprehensive industrial policies, most research has focused on the national government's strategies for economic growth. However, one of the unique characteristics of industrial policy in China is that it involves government intervention at all levels,...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge