This is a discussion of the general impact of World Trade Organization membership on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and addresses the political and economic impact on cross-Strait relations of common membership.
China's economic institutions have undergone dramatic changes in recent years, but there has been surprisingly little change in political institutions. Yet the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor forc…
This volume describes how one local government in China has governed a much larger and vastly more complex market economy without any outward changes in the formal institutions of government. The chapters document the subtle but profound changes in the way that established gover…