Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: China's Reform and Opening in a Globalized World -- China's Reform in Perspective -- China's Reform in the East Asian Context -- China, the Former Soviet Union, and the Developed World -- Looking to the Future -- Part I China's Reform in Perspective -- Chapter 1 China and Democracy: Not a Contradiction in Terms -- Relations Between China's Party-State and Society: A Contradiction? -- Hegemonization: Domination and Legitimization -- The CCP and Society in the Maoist Era -- Decentralization: Intergovernmental and Between the State and Society -- Three Cases -- Expansion of semi-competitive elections and local democracy -- Admission of capitalists into the Party -- The growth of NGOs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 China's Three-Decade Reform: An Economic Perspective -- Successful Reform and Dynamic Growth -- The Chinese Road to Reform in Comparative Perspective -- Stages of Reform -- Deng's era: Laying down the architecture of reform -- Jiang-Zhu era: Accomplishing the market economy -- Hu-Wen era: Fixing the problems of growth -- Political Reform as the Unfinished Reform Agenda? -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 3 Social Reforms in the Cities: Modernity, Time Warp, and Marketing Among Disparate Urban Social Strata -- Introduction -- Two Forms of Life in the New Urban Marketplace -- Food and eating -- Housing -- Commodities, stores, and leisure spending -- Education and health care -- Education -- Health care -- Communications and transportation -- Communications -- Transportation and travel -- Investments: stocks, real estate -- Inflation -- Part II China's Reform in the East Asian Context -- Chapter 4 The Role of Japan in China's Three-Decade Economic Reform -- Introduction -- Japanese ODA to China -- Some stylized facts -- Japanese ODA and China's Infrastructures.

Japanese ODA and China's Economic Growth -- Japanese FDI and the Chinese Economy -- The growth of Japanese FDI in China -- The Structure of Japanese FDI in China -- Japanese FDI and China's Export Growth -- Japanese FDI and Technology Transfer -- Chapter 5 Korea's Development Experiences and China's Economic Reform -- Introduction -- Policy Interaction between Neighboring Countries in General -- Hypothesis I: Policy Imitation Characteristics -- Hypothesis II: Policy Paradigm Life Cycle (Modification Aspect) -- Korean Economic Development Revisited -- Macro review of Korean development path -- Key success elements of Korean condensed development -- Summing up -- Interferences of Korea's Influences on China's Reform -- Stages of Sino-Korean economic cooperation -- Korean influences on Chinese development -- Initial stages of Chinese development take-off -- Policy reference aspects -- Political leadership dimension -- Further interpretations -- Policy paradigm shift -- Chapter 6 Singapore's Economic Involvement in China's Reform -- Introduction -- Background to Singapore's Involvement in China's Reforms -- Singapore as a Reference for China -- Economic reforms to precede political democratization -- Singapore's economic and social experience as a reference for China -- Flagship Bilateral Projects -- The Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) -- The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City -- Singapore's Expanding and Multi-Faceted Economic Relations with China -- Final Comments -- Chapter 7 From Outward Processing to the Closer Partnership Economic Arrangement: The Evolving Economic Relations between Hong Kong and Guangdong -- The Economic Synergy between Hong Kong and Guangdong -- The Impact on Hong Kong's Economy -- The Impact on Guangdong's Economy -- Reversal of Role: Pulling Hong Kong Out of Its Economic Slump through CEPA.

CEPA's Impact of CEPA on Hong Kong's Economy -- Hong Kong's Role in Revitalizing the PRD Region -- Chapter 8 Local Economic Transition in China: A Perspective on Taiwan Investment -- Introduction -- China's Economic Reforms and Taiwan Investment -- China's globalization policies: From a band to liberalization -- China-Taiwan economic relationship prior to 2000 -- Taiwan investment in China in the early 21st century -- Local Technological Catch-up -- IT Industry: Brand companies outsourcing to Taiwan firms -- Cross-strait IT development -- Mutual dependence between China's development and Taiwan firms -- Taiwan Investment and China's Local Development -- Improving the local investment environment in China -- Transferring development experiences to China -- Part III China, the Former Soviet Union, and the Developed World -- Chapter 9 China's Reforms Compared to Those of Mikhail Gorbachev -- Introduction -- Political Liberalization versus Authoritarian Political Reform in China -- The Reform Problem in the Soviet Union -- Soviet economic reforms -- The international dimension: Military-industrial complex -- Gorbachev Turns to Political Liberalization -- In 2001, Gorbachev recalled that -- Glasnost' -- Liberalizing the political system -- China's Economic Reforms in Comparative Perspective -- Agriculture and township and village enterprises (TVEs) -- Remotivating officialdom -- Opening up to the outside world -- The private sector -- Insider privatization -- Concluding Observations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 10 China-US Economic Relations: Cooperative Competition -- Overview of China-US Economic Relations -- An Analytical Framework of China-US Relations -- Institutionalization of Economic Relations: WTO Accession and Aftermath -- PNTR issue -- China's market economy status -- Anti-dumping and safeguards -- Intellectual property protection.

Cooperative Competition: Textile Trade, Export Control and Currency Issue -- Textile trade -- Export control -- RMB exchange rate -- China, the United States and the International Economic System -- Chapter 11 China and the Heterogeneous European Welfare State -- Introduction -- Different Social Welfare Systems -- Childcare -- Provision of universal education -- Healthcare -- Unemployment benefits -- Old-age pensions -- The Different Costs of Social Welfare Systems -- China and the Adoption of European Welfare Practises -- Part IV Looking to the Future -- Chapter 12 China's Unfinished Business in Economic Reform -- Privatization -- Urbanization -- Efficiency -- Inequality -- Financial Sector Reform -- Chapter 13 Political Reform in China: What's Next? -- Introduction -- Democratization -- Chinese leaders' views on democracy -- Popular democracy -- According to Zhou et al., -- Intra-Party democracy -- Factionalization -- Shanghai Gang -- Qinghua Clique -- Princelings -- Chinese Communist Youth League (CCYL) Group -- Impact of factionalization on China's elite politics -- Political Institutionalization -- "Hu Jintao model" -- Xi Jinping's succession -- Index.