'… a huge and authoritative collection of papers … The 22 chapters cover the entire waterfront, with contributions ranging from the technicalities of absorbing the WTO accession agreements into China's domestic law to the country's textile exports; from competition law to liberalization of the distribution sector; from telecommunications reform to several chapters on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the IPR agreement that china was required to implement on entry … essential reading for those wishing to understand the issues.' International Affairs

• Introduction: entering the new millennium Deborah Z. Cass, Brett Gerard Williams and George Barker; Part I. The World Trading System: 1. The impact of China's accession on the WTO John H. Jackson; 2. WTO membership for China: to be and not to be: is that the answer? Sylvia Ostry; 3. China and the constitutionalization of international trade law Deborah Z. Cass; Part II. The Accession: 4. China's WTO accession: the final countdown Jeffrey L. Gertler; 5. China's accession: improving market access and Australia's role and interests Graeme Thomson; Part III. China: The Domestic Sphere: 6. The state of the Chinese economy: structural changes, impacts and implications Ligang Song; 7. Trade policy reform and China's WTO accession Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin; 8. China's WTO entry in labor surplus and Marxist terms Raj Bhala; 9. Enforcement of WTO agreements: illusion or reality? Qingjian Kong; 10. China: trade, law and human rights Alice Tay; Part IV. Trade in Goods: 11. China's interest in the WTO's deregulation of international textiles trade Ian Dickson; 12. China and the agreement on technical barriers to trade Ichiro Araki; Part V. Trade in Services and Competition Policy: 13. WTO membership and professional services regulation in China Christopher Arup; 14. The impact of accession on regulation of distribution and logistics industries in China Dene Yeaman; 15. Regulating the new economy: implications for telecommunications and e-commerce in China Ian Macintosh; 16. Segregation and convergence: the Chinese dilemma for financial services Richard Wu; 17. Adopting a competition law in China Mark Williams; Part VI. Intellectual Property: 18. Chinese trademark law and the TRIPs agreement Angela Gregory; 19. TRIPs goes East: China's interests and international trade in intellectual property Antony Taubman; 20. The impact of WTO membership on review of the TRIPS agreement Daniel Stewart and Brett Gerard Williams; Part VII. Dispute Settlement: 21. Interpreting China's accession protocol: a case study in anti-dumping Michael Lennard; 22. Dispute settlement and sub-national entities Ravi P. Kewalram.