The primary aim of this series is to publish original, high quality, research-level work, by both new and established scholars in the West and East, on all aspects of the Chinese economy, including studies of business and economic history. Works of synthesis, reference books and edited collections will also be considered. Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed.
By Peter Nolan
October 02, 2024
This book discusses how the United States has launched a New Cold War against China. Showing how this New Cold War can only be fully understood by analysing the long-run history of the East and the West, and the fundamental differences between the Old and the New Cold Wars, this book outlines how ...
By China Development Research Foundation
August 01, 2024
This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned and still needed to cope with the challenges. It highlights that the number of people aged 65 or above is growing and that the growth will accelerate – from 176 million people ...
By China Development Research Foundation
May 27, 2024
This book presents the findings of systematic research into the healthcare medicine management policies of China. In-depth comprehensive research has been carried out, targeting multiple issues of particular importance in healthcare medicine management, such as the purchasing, pricing, payment, ...
By Wang Wei, Deng Yusong, Niu Sanyuan, Wang Ruimin, Shao Ting, Zhao Yong, Liu Xin
April 16, 2024
Based on a major research project undertaken by a team at the Institute of Market Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council of China, a project which included extensive survey research, and involved also many international scholars including researchers at the World Economic Forum ...
Edited
By Wang Mengkui
April 15, 2024
This book presents a survey of China's reforms of the last thirty years, providing an invaluable assessment of the reforms from the perspective of experts within China, including an appraisal of how the reforms have been, what the consequences have been, and how far the reforms have been successful....
Edited
By Xiaming Liu, Shujie Yao
December 31, 2023
Economic growth in China has been exceptionally strong in recent decades, but the country still faces enormous economic problems, including huge poverty, uneven regional development, the problems associated with strengthening capital formation, modernising and making more productive the very large ...
By A. S. Bhalla, Shufang Qiu, S. Qiu
August 23, 2018
The book explores the macroeconomic and sectoral employment implications (in agriculture, industry and services) of China's World Trade Organisation accession. It argues that while short-run employment losses may occur, in the longer term China will be able to generate additional employment ...
By Zhenyu Fu
May 31, 2023
This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry. Considering the large and important Chinese mining industry in detail, it argues that innovation is key for success in all industries, not just new "tech" industries. It ...
By Peter Nolan
January 09, 2023
The widely held view of the Asian Financial Crisis is that it had no substantial impact on China. In fact, the country was far more vulnerable than most people realized, due to the high possibility of financial contagion entering the system from Hong Kong through Guangdong province. This book ...
By Peter Nolan
May 06, 2022
The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–98 a tremendous transformation has taken place in the financial systems in ...
By Xiao Chen
September 30, 2021
Since the beginning of China’s economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country’s economic development. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current development challenges for ...
By Prajakti Kalra
September 30, 2021
The growing importance of Central and Inner Asia and the Silk Road is much discussed at present. This book compares the nature of present day networks in these regions with the patterns of similar connections which existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century and its successor...