The China Handbook

In the REGIONAL HANDBOOKS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS ONTO THE 21ST CENTURY series. The volume examines key issues affecting the economic growth of the region, and is designed to help the general reader understand a variety of complex factors that will bear on a region's economic growth as it moves into the next century.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century. Like the other titles in the series, the China Handbook explores a wide range of complex factors, including overviews of the region''s economic conditions within an historical and political context, as well as 20 or more chapter-length essays written by recognized experts, which analyze the key issues affecting a region''s economy: its population, natural resources, foreign trade, labor problems, and economic inequalities, and other vital factors. In addition, this resource offers a detailed chronology of events in the region, a glossary of terms, biographical entries on key personalities, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and a comprehensive analytical index.