The book: Understanding the Chinese Economies The author: Rongxing Guo (all website materials provided by author) The Publisher: Academic Press/Elsevier http://www.elsevierdirect.com/9780123978264

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The bookUnderstanding the Chinese
EconomiesThe authorRongxing Guo(all website
materials provided by author)The Publisher
Academic Press/Elsevier http//www.elsevierdirec
t.com/9780123978264

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Which countries match the population of Chinese
provinces?
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Notes to the map The equivalents are as
follows AlgeriaFujian, ArgentinaGuizhou,
ArmeniaTibet, BurundiHainan, CameroonShanghai,
CanadaShaanxi, ChileBeijing, Congo (Dem. Rep.
of)Hebei, DenmarkQinghai, EthiopiaHenan,
FranceHunan, GermanySichuan, GhanaGansu,
IranJiangsu, ItalyHubei, JordanNingxia,
KenyaJiangxi, MyanmarZhejiang, Papua New
GuineaHong Kong, PhilippinesGuangdong,
PolandHeilongjiang, RomaniaXinjiang, Saudi
ArabiaJilin, Solomon IslandsMacau, South
AfricaGuangxi, SpainYunnan, SudanLiaoning,
UgandaShanxi, UKAnhui, VenezuelaChongqing,
VietnamShandong, YemenInner Mongolia, and
ZimbabweTianjin. Data are as of 2010.
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How to use this book
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Chapters

1. A Brief History of China
2. Spatial and Administrative Divisions
3. Human and Cultural Contexts
4. Natural and Environmental Resources
5. Political and Administrative Systems

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Chapters

1. Economic Systems in Transition
2. Understanding Chinese Economic Reform
3. Economic Growth and Income (Re)distribution
4. A Multiregional Economic Comparison
5. Regional Diseconomies and Development

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Chapters

1. Industrialization and Technological Progress
2. International Economic Engagement
3. Inward and Outward Direct Investments
4. Doing Business in China
5. Understanding the Chinese-Speaking Economies

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Notes on the text

• Unless stated otherwise, the geographical scope
  of China covers only mainland China, although
  Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are mentioned in a
  number of the chapters.
• The term Chinese economies refers either to
  Chinas provincial/local economies or to the
  larger extent of all the Chinese-speaking
  economies.
• Chinese names are customarily written in the
  order of family name (which is in the single
  syllable in most cases) followed by given name.
• Chinese names and geographic terms in mainland
  China are written in Chinas official (pinyin)
  form, while those outside mainland China are in
  the conventional form.
• For the sake of convenience, specific autonomous
  regions and municipalities directly under the
  central government will be referred to alongside
  provinces by a single name.

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Sources for statistical data
Title Version(s) Years Editor(s) Publisher
China Statistical Yearbook(a) Chinese/ English 198199 2000- SSB NBS CSP
A Compilation of Historical Statistical Materials of Chinas Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities English 194989 SSB (1990) Hsueh et al. (1993) CSP WVP
Historical Data on Chinas Gross Domestic Product Chinese 195295 SSB NCUFE
Almanac of Chinas Economy Chinese 1981 EMP
China Industrial Economic Statistical Yearbook Chinese 1988 SSB CSP
Price Yearbook of China(b) Chinese 1990 ECPYC CPP
Notes (a) Also available at the website
(http//www.stats.gov.cn/eng/) for the data from
1996 onwards. (b) Some price information is
available at http//www.chinaprice.gov.cn.
CPPChina Price Press CSPChina Statistics
Press ECPYCediting committee of Price Yearbook
of China EMPEconomics and Management Press
NBSNational Bureau of Statistics of China
NCUFEPress of Northeast China University of
Finance and Economics WVPWestview Press
SSBState Statistical Bureau.
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Useful websites

• This books supplement materials
   http//www.elsevierdirect.com/companions/978012
  3978264
• Chinas political and economic conditions http
  //www.cpcchina.org (the website of the Communist
  Party of China) http//english.gov.cn (the
  website of Central Peoples Government of the
  PRC) http//www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/index.
  htm (the website of the National People's
  Congress of the PRC)http//www.cppcc.gov.cn (the
  website of the Chinese Peoples Political
  Consultative Congress)

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Other useful websites

• http//devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline/
• http//www.chinaprice.gov.cn
• http//www.stats.gov.cn/eng/
• http//www.cei.gov.cn/
• http//www.economist.com/topics/chinese-economy
• http//www.chinaeconomicreview.com/
• http//www.economywatch.com/world_economy/china/?p
  agefull
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_People
  's_Republic_of_China

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Suggested reading

• China Quarterly (Cambridge University Press)
• Journal of Contemporary China (Taylor Francis)
  and
• The China Journal (Australian National
  University).

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Suggested reading

• China Economic Review (Elsevier) and
• Journal of Comparative Economics (Elsevier).

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