Promoting the understanding of the impressive economic growth and social transformation in China and India, the authors demonstrate the diverse economic, political, social, cultural, international and historical conditions in these two developing countries and point out the theoretical problems of comparative development models in particular.

ZHIYUE BO Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore SRIKANTA CHATTERJEE Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand ZHENGLAI DENG Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Theory, Fudan University, China DILIP K. DAS Professor of International Economics and International Finance and Director of the Institute of Asian Business, SolBridge International School of Business, Woosong University, South Korea JUN FU Professor of Political Economy and Executive Dean of the School of Government, Peking University, China BRUCE GILLEY Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hatfield School of Governance, Portland State University, USA LEI GUANG Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, San Diego State University, USA KRISHNA KUMAR Senior Economist, RAND, and Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, USA YING LIU Visiting Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, and Adjunct Researcher, RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, USA WING THYE WOO Professor, University of California at Davis, USA, Yangtze River Scholar, Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China, Director of the East Asia Program, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA, and Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA JASON YOUNG Lecturer in Political Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand