Books in the East Asian Institute Contemporary China Series series

A study of China's economy in 1998. As the financial crisis swept the Asia Pacific, China seemed to be the one economy in the region which had been left "largely unaffected". However its economic growth momentum had visibly slowed down. This is an examination of these issues and related ones.

An analysis of Taiwan's legislative, magistrates' and mayors' election of December 2001. It examines: the political milieu in which the campaign was conducted; the candidates; party platforms and strategies; the campaign; the results; and the domestic and international responses to the election.

A discussion of the changing role of the village level Chinese Communist Party secretaries in the countryside. The political implications of rural reforms, according to the author, are a gradual transformation of the nature of the CCP into a party that manages things from the sidelines.