State enterprise restructuring / Barry Naughton -- China's compatible opening / Fan Gang -- Stabilizing potential instability / Leila Fernandez-Stembridge -- Old working class, new working class / Jean-Louis Rocca -- The development of the urban housing market / Brian Hook -- Norms, police and the problems of control / Børge Bakken -- Social anomie and political discourse in contemporary China / Taciana Fisac -- Overseas Chinese associations building up a national identity / Gladys Nieto -- Collective identity and nationalism in Europe and China / Werner Meissner -- The rise of a Hong Kong identity / Steve Tsang -- Consolidating Taiwan's new democracy amid competing national identities / Yun-Han Chu and Chia-Lung Lin
Summary
Having increased its efforts towards international integration, domestic reform continues to present China with one of its greatest challenges. This volume thoroughly analyses several important aspects of today's China and its economy
