This wide-ranging collection addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production to trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business, money demand and consumption behaviour. Together, the studies provide insightful analysis and discussion of economic policies, illuminating the institutional context within which reform strategies are negotiated and implemented in different economic sectors.

PHILIP ANDREWS-SPEED Assistant Director, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee FIONA CARMICHAEL Lecturer in Economics, University of Salford JOHN DAVIS Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex MEIBING FU Lecturer in Economics, Renmin University, China SHUMEI GAO Lecturer in Economics, Heriot-Watt University CHAODONG HUANG Research Officer, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London ATHAR HUSSAIN Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics AYING LIU Lecturer, Business School, University of Middlesex XIAMING LIU Lecturer, Aston Business School, Aston University MINQUAN LIU Lecturer in Economics, University of Leicester PETER NOLAN Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge DUO QIN Lecturer in Economics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London PETER ROMILLY Lecturer, School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay, Dundee MARK E. SCHAFFER Professor of Economics, Heriot-Watt University HAIYAN SONG Lecturer in Economics, University of Surrey HUI TAN Lecturer in Economics, Renmin University, China LIMING WANG Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast XIAOQIANG WANG Research Fellow, China Business Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University QIREN ZHOU Research Fellow, China Centre for Economic Reform, Beijing University