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This collection of essays analyzes the accomplishments of Chinese law reform and the problems that confront the Chinese leadership and the Chinese people in their struggle to define the role of law in China.

It is expected that in the 21st century, environmental issues will play an increasing role in China's economic development drive, internal politics, legal development, international relations and regional development. This text explores the management of China's environment within various contexts.

This is a study on Japan's post-war relations with China up until the end of the 1970s, prior to Deng Xiaopin's reform and open-door policies. The study focuses on Japan's deep economic involvement with China initiated by a complex group of pro-China Japanese.

This is a social biography of Deng Tuo (1912-66), journalist, editor, and theorist, who is variously seen as a dissident and a propagandist for Mao. Its broader purpose is to re-examine the role of intellectuals in China's communist revolution.

Deng Xiaoping has been vastly important in the entire history of China in the twentieth century. This volume explores Deng's rise to power, and his leadership of the country since 1977. The distinguished contributors provide a careful and comprehensive assessment of Deng's statesmanship, and of China under his mixture of economic reform and political repression.

The distinguished contributors to this volume present and interpret the intriguing relationship between China and Japan, covering the important issues - both diplomatic and economic - and considering the implications of current Sino-Japanese contacts for the wider world. This book should prove to be an essential reference for students and academics.

This work opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping as a couple; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and concepts of privacy in China.

The author gauges the impact of agricultural decentralization on the scope of central control and provincial discretion in China in the early 1980s. He finds that outcomes may often differ significantly from intended goals and suggests the role played by bureaucratic careerism is crucial.

Aims to broaden our understanding of the culture and society of Canton, the largest metroplois in South China, in the period between the two World Wars. This title redresses serious misconceptions of the extent of damage inflicted by gambling, prostitution and opium consumption on the Cantonese society and its people.

This book is a testament to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Leading scholars review many aspects of contemporary research on the Republican era, ranging from the influence of fascism on Chiang Kai-Shek to the transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. Relevant for all interested in the key period in China between Monarchy and Communism.

With its focus on land policy and administration, including natural resources, this book contributes to the field of institutional change and property rights reform in socialist economies with reference to China. It addresses professionals interested in the economics of transition, legal anthropology, and natural resource management.

China's Military in Transition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the Chinese military ever published. It contains fourteen chapters by many of the world's leading experts of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), and offers numerous insights into how China's military modernization will affect the balance of global power in the twenty-first century.

This book provides a concise and authoritative account of the prospects for the Chinese economy in the 1990s, covering recent policies and economic trends. The distinguished contributors identify the likely future direction of economic strategy, and the individual papers represent good coverage of the main issues. This book should prove to be an essential reference for students and academics.

This text presents views on development in the People's Republic of China since 1949, with emphasis on the 1980s and 90s. It provides a broad overview of progress and setbacks, and looks at specific topics such as political reform, the economy, rural reform and foreign relations.

A relatively non-technical overview of how and why the Chinese economy grew after 1978, this text argues that the Chinese government played a very positive role in the process. Foreign trade and foreign investment were less important than usually thought. It concludes that China benefited from some of the policies adopted by Mao in the 60s and 70s.

This volume provides a comprehensive assessment of China's economic reforms since the beginning of the 1980s. It explains how the new economic system works, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. It also considers the likely implications of recent changes for China's future development pattern.

This study of China's Great Leap Forward documents how Mao Zedong dominated and manipulated the policy process. The author discusses how the central ministries and the province of Guangdong implemented radical policies such as the backyard furnace campaign and the establishment of the People's Communes.

What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the political history of the period.

Exploring beyond the dominant state capacity paradigm, this text argues for an interactive model to explain the political relations between the central and provincial governments in contemporary China.

This collection of essays interprets the successes and failures of China's post-Mao economic reforms and discusses the lessons they provide for the transitional economies of other regions, most notably Eastern Europe.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date study presently available of the dynamic island republic of Taiwan. Drawing on a broad range of documentary sources and on-site research, a group of writers including many of the world's leading specialists on Taiwanese affairs provide in-depth and expert analysis.

Gives an account of the agricultural sector in China during the period 1931-1990. Professor Kueh has collected and analyzed statistical data and combines this with a wider discussion of Chinese economic policy and macroeconomic instability.

This study of Chinese foreign policy is intended for academics and graduates of Chinese studies and of international relations, international economics and those interested in decision-making theory.

This guide looks at the People's Liberation Army in China from an economic viewpoint. It describes and analyses the entrepreneurial activities of the PLA and provides a detailed history of the military-business complex in China.

This text argues that the underlying theme of China's development trajectory in the 20th century is reconstruction or "jianshe". Contributors examine how a range of people have reacted to the movements and transitions, highlight the importance of the state and prospects for a national identity.

The Exemplary Society examines traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about education, discipline, and social control. It describes the Chinese attitudes towards criminality, sex, youth culture, and other `disorders' of the modernization process. The resulting quest for social control through an exemplary educative and disciplinary society is analysed in this pathbreaking study.

From an administered labour system under central planning, the Chinese economy has moved towards a labour market. This book reviews the progress of urban economic reform, analyses the underlying political economy that has both induced and impeded reform, and examines the economic changes that have unleashed market forces.

This investigation of China's reform process over the years 1979-1987 analyzes China's gradual transition to a market economy. It concludes that, although the reform programme has been a qualified success, further progress requires the introduction of private ownership.

Examines how China's political and legal structure is quietly but dramatically changing from within, rather than being overthrown from below as in Eastern Europe, and studies the changing relationship between the National People's Congress and the Communist party hierarchy. In the STUDIES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA series.

This text describes and explains the large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China. How did it come about? How is it maintained, in the face of equilibrating market forces? What are the implications for future efficiency and equity in the Chinese economy?