Summary China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China’s economic reform. The common view that China’s gradualistic approach has served it well…
Topic: Political Economy
Summary China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been hailed as the biggest coming-out party in the history of capitalism. Its membership eventually…
Summary China is by far the world’s leading producer of pirated goods—from films and books to clothing, from consumer electronics to aircraft parts. As China…
Summary China has the highest levels of copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting in the world, even though it also provides the highest per capita volume…
Summary In this provocative, important study, Dali L. Yang examines a wide range of governance reforms in the People’s Republic of China, including administrative rationalization,…
Summary Globalization has created challenges and opportunities which all countries have to grapple with. Yongnian Zheng explores how China’s leaders have embraced global capitalism and…
Summary Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products, but as former Wall Street Journal China…
Summary The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is leading a multi-year research project to examine standards and innovation in China. NBR conducts independent research…
Summary Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more…
Summary Walmart and “Made in China” are practically synonymous; Walmart imports some 70 percent of its merchandise from China. Walmart is now also rapidly becoming…
Summary As the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) set about reforming its centrally planned economy, it faced the thorny policy question of how to reform its state-owned…
Summary The Chinese economy’s return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China’s institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to…
Summary This book presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained…
Summary This book dissects the history of China beginning on October 1, 1949 when Mao Zedong established a communist nation by weaving together political ideology,…
Summary Although China’s economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the…
