China Handbook

"Its comprehensiveness sets this work apart as a timely, sensitive assessment of perhaps the most rapid, unsettling, and portentous transformations in recent history. All levels." -- Choice

• One The Maoist Period, 1949-78: Mobilizational Collectivism, Primitive Accumulation, and Industrialization Two The Dengist Period: The Triumphs and Crises of Structural Reform, 1979 to the Present Three China and Hong Kong: The Political Economy of Reunification Four Growing Interdependence: Economic Relations Between China and Taiwan; Five China in East Asia: Changing Relations with Japan and Korea; Six China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Prospects for Economic Cooperation; Political Economy an d Development Policy, Seven Plan Versus Market: China's Socialist Market Economy; Eight China's Urban Industry; Nine The Impact and Prospects of Rural Enterprise; Ten The Political Consequences of China's Agricultural Reforms; Eleven The Private Sector in China's Economic Reforms; Twelve Financial Reform at the Crossroads; Thirteen Foreign Trade Reform and Relations with International Economic Institutions; Fourteen China's Environment and Natural Resources; Fifteen Law Reform and China's Emerging Market Economy; Sixteen Political Fetters, Commercial Freedoms: Restraint and Excess in Chinese Mass Communications; Society an d Human Dimension s of Development; Seventeen Population Policy; Eighteen Chinese Labor in the Reform Era: Changing Fragmentation and New Politics; Nineteen Education and Economic Reform; Twenty China's Social Welfare Reforms for a Market Economy: Problems and Prospects ; Twenty-One China's Nationalities and Nationality Areas