The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century. Like the other titles in the series, the China Handbook explores a wide range of complex factors, including overviews of the region's economic conditions within an historical and political context, as well as 20 or more chapter-length essays written by recognized experts, which analyze the key issues affecting a region's economy: its population, natural resources, foreign trade, labor problems, and economic inequalities, and other vital factors. In addition, this resource offers a detailed chronology of events in the region, a glossary of terms, biographical entries on key personalities, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and a comprehensive analytical index.

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