Books in the Studies on the Chinese Economy series

Describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China.

The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms. The book includes an introductory chapter describing the history of rural economic policy in the People's Republic of China, notes by Du Runsheng and a glossary of important Marxist and Chinese economic terms.

How do Chinese managers learn to do their job? Management training has become a vital necessity for China under the economic reforms. This book, based on empirical study of the institutions involved, is the first to examine in depth the industrial and management training in China.

This book examines how China's decentralization process has affected and will affect the country's macroeconomic performance and the functioning of the market.

This book outlines the process of China's trade reforms over the past two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the economy. The author provides a detailed quantitative analysis to trace China's evolving commodity pattern of trade and changing comparative advantage structure over the entire reform period.

This book analyses the management of human resources in Chinese industry, covering the period from 1949 to present, particularly focusing on the period of economic reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s. This arrangement is now under threat from the recent labour reforms and the emergence of a nascent labour market.

This book is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular. The latter is an institutional arrangement to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has always been at the centre of the enterprise reform.

This book examines key issues in each of the major sectors of the Chinese economy. It illuminates the way in which China's 'step-by-step' reform affected different parts of the economy. It also enables readers to understand why this broad strategy of reforming a communist planned economy was so successful in the Chinese case.

China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance.

As the rural township, village and private enterprises are becoming more significant in the Chinese economy, this text focuses on the comparison of the rural (non-state) and state firms in terms of performance.

This book is a seminal contribution to decision making theory through its study of management decision making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries.

Corporate governance, namely the relationship between the ownership and control of firms, takes on new dimensions in the case of international joint ventures operating in the special context of China.

How and why did the rural enterprise sector get so big in China? This book has the answers. That sector is owned and operated by rural communities. The book explains why these enterprises have been growing so fast, and it explores the implications of their growth.

As senior advisers to the Chinese leaders the authors expose the undercurrents pushing the leaders to the brink of economic reform, and the obvious achievements of the early reform as well as the latent seeds for the later crisis.

Provides an insider's examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. The book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform and the international ramifications of China's rise.

The transformation and industrialization of rural China is the underlying theme of this book. It uses case studies of selected regions in south China where rural changes have been particularly dramatic. It looks at how capital and labour are mobilized and reallocated by change.

It deals with the evolution, reform and consolidation of the Chinese labour movement and, particularly, the role of the main arm of Chinese organized labour, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) at both the apex and grass-roots levels.

It uses historical evidence to show that individuals and communities act to manage resources sustainably for a number of reasons including economic benefit, religious or symbolic purposes, and that sustainability of the management system depends on the form of control exerted over the resource.

Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive and perceptive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications.

This wide-ranging collection addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production to trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business, money demand and consumption behaviour.

In tracing the sources of changes in China's trade patterns and comparative advantage, the author also reveals in detail how economic reforms have realigned China's domestic price structure with the rest of the world, and assesses the emergence of China's domestic factor markets during the reform period.

This book identifies that problems that China must face to develop its economy and elucidates the structural deficiencies which lay behind these problems. The book also analyzes China's present economic situation and, where possible, provides prescriptions for solving its problems by comparing it with the Japanese development experience.

Based on the experiences of Chinese reforms, the book criticises the transition theories of the 'big-bang' and privatisation represented by Sachs and Kornai. China has combined the 'gradual approach' of transition with the gradual process of economic development.

Godfrey Yeung investigates the causes and socio-economic effects of foreign direct investment in the Dongguan municipality of southern China during the 1990s.

Focusing on the chemical sector, the author compares the policies and behaviour of three multinational corporations with three large, local firms. The research shows that in fact the multinational companies have out-performed local companies in the phenomenon of 'greening'.

The fusion of know-how and capital from Hong Kong and Taiwan with the substantial labour resources on China has led to the emergence of a dynamic economy of 'Greater China' rivalling the USA, the European Union and Japan. With China's entry into the WTO, what are the problems and prospects of Greater China?

This book analyses the impact of the current economic reform on the income development of peasant households in the People's Republic of China.

Describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China. The text is based on a study of Chinese political discourse from the 1898 reform period to the present.

This book analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the banking system reforms with particular reference to centrally planned economies. Employing a critical exposition of banking theories, it assesses current financial disorders and takes issue with some established theories.