China: Two Decades of Reform and Change

Wang Gungwu & John Wong (Editors)

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

Contents:

• Introduction (Wang Gungwu and John Wong);
• China's Incremental Political Reform: Lessons and Experiences (Zheng Yongnian);
• Towards the Rule of Law: An overview of China's Legal Reform (Zou Keyuan);
• Revitalizing Chinese Society: Institutional Transformation and Social Change (Gu Xin);
• China's Dynamic Economic Growth in East Asian Context (John Wong);
• Cross-Straits Relations Since 1979: Economic Dynamism and Political Fragility (Luo Qi).

WANG Gungwu is University Professor at the National University of Singapore and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
John WONG is Research Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore.

publication year: 1999
178 pages
ISBN: 978-9971-69-230-8  Paperback  US$17.00  S$29.00

A joint imprint with World Scientific.