China in Transition Issues and Policies

This text focuses on the important, controversial issues and policies of contemporary China. These include new intellectual currents and reassessment of socialism in the PRC, grassroots political participation in rural China, public maladministration and bureaucratic corruption, and legal reform. The book also covers Sino American relations in the post Cold War era, sovereignty disputes across the Taiwan Straits, regional development issues, rural industrialization and international trade, economic growth and sustainable development, the political economy of anti poverty, and the evolution of family planning policies.