Auteur: Wong John Wong

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun (”southern tour”). During the tour, he boldly called for more radical economic reform and fur …

China’s power sector has performed impressively during the past twenty years in support of economic growth. Faced with the need to expand its power capacity, China is investing heavily in the constru …

China’s Ninth National People’s Congress (NPC), convened in March 1998, established a new NPC and a new cabinet. Is NPC still much like a “rubber stamp” as before? Will the new chairman, Li Peng, fol …

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China’s economy has experienced spectacular growth. Today China has grown to be the world’s seventh largest economy — or the world’s second largest after th …

What the Jiang Zemin leadership faced in 1999 can be characterized by a century-old Chinese saying, neiyou waihuan (literally, "internal disturbance and external threat"). What with the wor …

The Party and state leadership in Beijing was rudely awakened to the fact that the state bureaucracies in charge of public security had no idea of Falun Gong’s leadership and its functions on April 2 …

China’s power sector has performed impressively during the past twenty years in support of economic growth. Faced with the need to expand its power capacity, China is investing heavily in the constru …

This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen’s New Deal. Individual chapters are written by …

In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming many lives. The unknown nature of SARS at that time also jolted the …

With the new team of Chinese leaders at the helm following the successful hosting of the 16th Party Congress in November 2002, the attention of China’s scholars has now shifted to the raft of challen …

The lack of institutionalization around China’s leadership succession was brought into focus again in the run-up to the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and the widespread speculation on …

In the last two decades of the 20th century, China stood out as the world’s star performer in economic growth, thanks to the market-oriented reform that started in 1978. At the turn of the century, t …

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("southern tour"). During the tour, he boldly called for more radical economic refo …

The New Economy has hit China, driven by the Internet and e-commerce. China has made a good start in both areas. Since its debut, subscribers to the Internet grew exponentially from a mere 1, 600 in …

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China’s economy has experienced spectacular growth. Today China has grown to be the world’s seventh largest economy – or the world’s second largest after th …

1997 was truly an eventful year for China, with many momentous happenings. In February of that year Deng Xiaoping passed away, thus marking the end of an era. Shortly after, the post-Deng Chinese lea …

This book provides a fascinating perspective of the experiences of China’s reform in the past three decades by focusing on China’s interaction with and learning from the external world in her unprece …

In Interpreting China’s Development, leading experts on China provide an overview of this growing superpower, highlighting key issues in the country’s political, economic and social development.Under …

The Chinese economy today is at a critical crossroads. Sustained rapid growth has given rise to structural strains as well as sectoral imbalances. It has also generated socio-economic problems such a …

At the beginning of the new century, China’s leadership is preparing the ground for a smooth transfer of power from the third generation to the fourth generation leaders. Politicking among different …

The Sino-US trade accord signed in November 1999 in Beijing set a milestone for China’s protracted journey towards becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). China hailed it as a win-wi …

As the financial crisis swept the Asia-Pacific, China seemed to be the one economy in the region which had been left "largely unaffected" for various reasons, including its strong economic …

A surge in demand for oil due to rapid economic growth and stagnation in domestic oil output has turned China into a net oil importer since 1993. Faced with increasing reliance on imports to meet its …

China’s Ninth National People’s Congress (NPC), convened in March 1998, established a new NPC and a new cabinet. Is NPC still much like a "rubber stamp" as before? Will the new chairman, Li …

With mounting discontent due to widespread unemployment, corruption and misgovernment, the Ninth National People’s Congress in March 2000 was a letdown. Significant though was Premier Zhu Rongji’s an …