Bücher der Reihe Studies on the Chinese Economy

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.

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 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.

The development of China's grain marketing system is a crucial part of economic reform. Of special interest is the impact of marketing reform on regional trade patterns in the domestic market and implications for China's international grain trade policy.

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.