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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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Which countries match the population of Chinese provinces?

Notes to the map: The equivalents are as follows: Algeria=Fujian, Argentina=Guizhou, Armenia=Tibet, Burundi=Hainan, Cameroon=Shanghai, Canada=Shaanxi, Chile=Beijing, Congo (Dem. Rep. of)=Hebei, Denmark=Qinghai, Ethiopia=Henan, France=Hunan, Germany=Sichuan, Ghana=Gansu, Iran=Jiangsu, Italy=Hubei, Jordan=Ningxia, Kenya=Jiangxi, Myanmar=Zhejiang, Papua New Guinea=Hong Kong, Philippines=Guangdong, Poland=Heilongjiang, Romania=Xinjiang, Saudi Arabia=Jilin, Solomon Islands=Macau, South Africa=Guangxi, Spain=Yunnan, Sudan=Liaoning, Uganda=Shanxi, UK=Anhui, Venezuela=Chongqing, Vietnam=Shandong, Yemen=Inner Mongolia, and Zimbabwe=Tianjin.

Data are as of 2010.

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How to use this book

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Chapters1. 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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6. Economic Systems in Transition

7. Understanding Chinese Economic Reform

8. Economic Growth and Income (Re)distribution

9. A Multiregional Economic Comparison

10. Regional Diseconomies and Development

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Chapters

11. Industrialization and Technological Progress

12. International Economic Engagement

13. Inward and Outward Direct Investments

14. Doing Business in China

15. Understanding the Chinese-Speaking Economies

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Chapters

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 China’s 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 China’s 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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Title Version(s) Years Editor(s) Publisher

“China Statistical Yearbook”(a)Chinese/ English

1981–992000-

SSBNBS

CSP

“A Compilation of Historical Statistical Materials of China’s Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities”

English 1949–89SSB (1990)Hsueh et al. (1993)

CSPWVP

“Historical Data on China’s Gross Domestic Product”

Chinese 1952–95 SSB NCUFE

“Almanac of China’s Economy” Chinese 1981– EMP

“China Industrial Economic Statistical Yearbook”

Chinese 1988– SSB CSP

“Price Yearbook of China”(b) Chinese 1990– ECPYC CPPNotes: (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. CPP=China Price Press; CSP=China Statistics Press; ECPYC=editing committee of Price Yearbook of China; EMP=Economics and Management Press; NBS=National Bureau of Statistics of China; NCUFE=Press of Northeast China University of Finance and Economics; WVP=Westview Press; SSB=State Statistical Bureau.

Sources for statistical data :

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Useful websites:

• This book’s supplement materials:  http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companions/9780123978264

• China’s political and economic conditions: http://www.cpcchina.org (the website of the Communist Party of China) http://english.gov.cn (the website of Central People’s 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 People’s 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/?page=full

• 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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