CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS
Economic and Legal Dimensions

With China's dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark China-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement in 2002. Beyond trade and economic activities, China-ASEAN cooperation has broadened to cover the environment, science and technology, non-traditional security areas and related legal issues. China's relations with ASEAN have reached a new era where the two sides have established an economic, legal and political framework for their comprehensive cooperation.

CHINA'S COMPLIANCE IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Trade, Arms Control, Environmental Protection, Human Rights

The rise of China has thrown open many important and interesting questions: Will a strong China behave responsibly in world affairs, complying with the rules and norms of the ‘international community’? Or will it defy ‘universal standards’, and fight instead for its own interests and those of the developing world, thereby challenging the global order dominated by the West?

POLITICAL CIVILIZATION AND MODERNIZATION IN CHINA
The Political Context of China's Transformation

This volume is the first comprehensive study of China's "political civilization" since the term was introduced by then Party Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2002. Selected among about 200 papers delivered at an international conference in Beijing in 2004, this collection of ten essays discusses the relations between "political civilization" and political reform in China from the different perspectives of institution building, political culture, political theory, intra-party democracy, political participation, judiciary reform, legislative reform, and media reform.

THE SARS EPIDEMIC
Challenges to China's Crisis Management

In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming many lives. The unknown nature of SARS at that time also jolted the economic growth of China and Hong Kong, disrupted the social life of their citizens and created much stress and strain for their political systems and governance.

CHINA'S TAX REFORM OPTIONS

This book covers a wide range of topics critical to China's future tax reform. Several prominent scholars and government officials have contributed papers which range from general tax issues to specific problem areas in tax policy design, implementation and legislation in China.

HANDBOOK ON CHINA'S WTO ACCESSION AND ITS IMPACTS

It has taken China 15 long years of tough negotiations to achieve accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). By becoming a full member of the WTO, China has in fact made three tiers of commitments. The first tier is the commitment to the objectives of the WTO, such as free trade, most-favoured nations, national treatment and transparency, as expounded in the various documents setting up the organization and its predecessor, the GATT.

CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC PRESENCE

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s. As China looks set to soar in the new millennium, there is an urgency to understand the world's most populous economy with a billion plus people.

INTERREGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF THE CHINESE ECONOMY

This book presents pioneering work on an interregional input¨Coutput table of the Chinese economy and its applications to the analysis of interregional and interindustrial relations in China. It is the fruit of the authors' joint efforts of more than five years to establish a solid basis for the analysis of interregional relations in China, in the hope of laying the foundation for further studies of regional development in that country.

CHINA'S WEST REGION DEVELOPMENT
Domestic Strategies and Global Implications

In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28% and its land area for 71% of China's total, the region's share of the national GDP is under 20%. Since 1999, Beijing has implemented the West China Development Program to boost the region's growth. To study the major domestic issues and the global implications of this program, the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives organized and hosted a multidisciplinary international conference on March 6¨C8, 2003. This volume of papers presented at the conference offers perspectives on the issues by leading experts of diversified academic disciplines from China, Canada, the US, and other countries.

FLEETING FOOTSTEPS
Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China
(Revised Edition)

The Hindu¨CArabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,...) is one of mankind's greatest achievements and one of its most commonly used inventions. How did it originate? Those who have written about the numeral system have hypothesized that it originated in India; however, there is little evidence to support this claim.

CHINA UNDER HU JINTAO
Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas

The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system.

SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG
Theoretical Issues and Case Studies

This book collates a number of case studies by former students from the Master of Arts (Social Work) programme whose stream of study was Social Services Administration. Many of these studies involved the action learning projects conducted by them. Academic colleagues and experienced administrators in the welfare and health sector also contribute their insights and experience regarding the major theoretical and practical issues in social services administration.

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN CHINA
Transition, Pedagogy and Training

This pioneering book offers a unique constellation of essays focused on the important social and economic changes affecting educational institutions in China. It provides an in-depth examination of the potential and obstacles for business and management education in the world's second largest economy and most populated country.

CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
Between Profitability and Bankruptcy

After decades of declining profitability, China's industrial state-owned enterprises appear obsolete. This book relies on extensive data and quantitative analysis to examine the reasons for the decline in profitability, to ascertain their current profitability patterns across various dimensions, and to account for any profitability gap with enterprises in other ownership forms. Recent reform measures are evaluated. A differentiated picture emerges which makes past developments comprehensible and illuminates the prospects of the reform of industrial state-owned enterprises in China.

CHINA'S POST-JIANG LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION
Problems and Perspectives

The lack of institutionalization around China's leadership succession was brought into focus again in the run-up to the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and the widespread speculation on the final leadership line-up.

CHINESE STOCK MARKETS
A Research Handbook

The exponential growth of China's stock markets in the past decade has attracted global attention from academics and practitioners.

THE NANXUN LEGACY AND CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT IN THE POST-DENG ERA

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("southern tour"). During the tour, he boldly called for more radical economic reform and further opening up of China.

CHINA AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
A Legal Perspective

This book examines, from the legal perspective, China's process of WTO accession, its commitments to the accession, the implications of such commitments for its trade and legal systems, and its efforts toward WTO compliance.

TOURISM AND CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT
Policies, Regional Economic Growth and Ecotourism

This book addresses all those issues. Although focussed on China, it deals with issues such as those involving the sustainability of tourism, and convergence and divergence in regional tourism development and economic growth relevant to other geographical areas.

ECONOMETRIC MODELING OF CHINA

This is the very first book to offer seven substantial econometric models of the Chinese economy with the statistical data used, so that the reader will be able to reproduce them all and test them for any policy alternatives.

REFORM, LEGITIMACY, AND DILEMMAS
China's Politics and Society

How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What strategies has Jiang Zemin adopted to cope with new circumstances in order to strengthen his leadership? What are the challenges these new reform measures have generated for the leadership? And how have domestic concerns constrained the leadership's intention in China's foreign relations? These are some of the questions which this volume attempts to address.

CHINA
Two Decades of Reform and Change

a convenient handbook for both scholars and laymen to have a good overview of China's major developments and transformations in the political, economic, legal and social spheres since 1978. Such a review will be useful for appreciating the enormous problems that will challenge China in its next phase of transition.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM Options for China

This is the first-ever book to provide a comprehensive analysis of Chinese social security reforms with a variety of views. It addresses issues such as what kind of social security system China should establish, how this system should be managed and financed, and how the transition from the old system to the new system can best be accomplished.

CHINA'S EMERGING NEW ECONOMY
The Internet and E-Commerce

This book is intended for readers interested in China's Internet and e-commerce sectors. Businessmen, corporate planners, business associates, researchers, engineers, technologists, academics and students interested in these industries will find the book useful. Focusing on China's nascent Internet and e-commerce industries, this book presents the historical development, current market status and future growth, as well as discusses the problems and issues facing the two sectors.

SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES AND THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN CHINA

This book examines China's economic development since 1949, with special emphasis on the economic transition of the past two decades and the role of special economic zones in this gradually evolving process.

GUANXI AND BUSINESS

Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) is one of the major dynamics of Chinese society. It has been a pervasive part of the Chinese business world for the last few centuries.

THE CHINESE ECONOMY

The main purpose of this book is to apply the basic tools of economic analysis to the economy of the Peoples' Republic of China. It is written for students of economics who would like to understand China, for students of China who would like to understand economics, and for professional economists and lay readers who would like to understand the Chinese economy.

TWO DECADES OF REFORM IN CHINA

This book summarizes the successful experiences and points out the difficulties of the deep reform and the prospects for the 21st century. Rich in historical data and material, it provides valuable information for readers from universities, institutions and enterprises as well as government officials – whoever is interested in China and its economic reform.

UNDERSTANDING CHINA'S ECONOMY

This book provides the interested reader with a bird's eye view of the Chinese economy over the last 16 years. Most chapters are written for the general reader, while a few are for professional economists. For the questions it answers or for those that it raises, this is an important book to read.

CHINA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY

This volume is largely based on public lectures and seminar papers by academic visitors and scholars at the East Asian Institute. Each has been written as a self-contained piece by a China expert, but presented primarily with non-specialist readers in mind.

JOINING THE MODERN WORLD
Inside and Outside China

The ongoing drama of Chinese people seeking to be modern has been enacted in different parts of the world. There are interesting differences among these Chinese, depending on where they have been living. The general trend, however, is unmistakable. The striving for betterment is supported by a strong capacity to adapt and change, and this is reflected in the way the Chinese seize new opportunities when they occur. The essays here describe some of these efforts both inside and outside China, and form a small mosaic of Chinese practising the art of modernising.

THE REFORMABILITY OF CHINA'S STATE SECTOR

All the papers collected in this book are closely related to the various issues that the reform of the state sector has to solve. This book will be extremely useful and relevant to those economists as well as government decision-makers working in the field of the transitional economy.

PIONEERS OF MODERN CHINA
Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese

Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rén are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rén are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province.

ACCOUNTING IN CHINA IN TRANSITION: 1949-2000

The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949–1978) and Deng's China (from 1979 to the present). Each period contains a number of sub-periods or phases, and each phase is characterised by one or more major political or economic events. This book gives an outline of the major events and the associated accounting changes over time.