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This book consists of papers presented at the International Conference on "China: The Next Decade," organized by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore in 2007 to commemorate the Institute's 10th anniversary. With eight papers covering China's economic, social and political development, this volume offers a balanced yet in-depth assessment of the challenges facing China in the next decade. Featuring contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this timely volume analyzes key aspects of China's reforms and development, such as the financial reform, international trade, leadership succession, social protests, health care reform and ethnic relationships. It is suitable for China scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's polity, economy and society.

Analyzes the factors in China's governance and political process that affect and restrain its capacity to handle the mounting environmental problems. This work argues that solutions to China's ecological woes to a larger extent lie in the political and institutional changes rather than in engineering, technological and investment input.

Brings together the works of some of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement in the South Pacific. This book pinpoints China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy.

There is no denying that China is experiencing radical changes, generally initiated by the vibrant market-driven economy. The question remains, however, of what has happened to those who, just a few decades before, experienced pride and power in being part of the proletariat. This book presents an investigation into their lives and memories.

Approaches the study of China under Hu Jintao in a two-fold manner: by examining the political parameters within which the party-state functions and by analyzing the issues that are commanding the attention of China's leaders. It tackles a range of topics, including elites, institutions and state-society relations, and others.

Attempts to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles.

Provides readers with an understanding of the important and emerging political, economic and social trends and challenges in East Asia in the coming years.

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives a broad overview of the process of health system reform in China. It draws extensively both on the Western literature in health economics and on the experience of health care reform in a number of other countries, including the US, UK, Holland, and Japan, and compares China's approach to health care reform with other countries. It also places the process of health system reform in the context of re-orienting China's economic policy to place greater emphasis on equity and income distribution, and analyzes the interaction of the central and local governments in designing and implementing the reforms. This book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, students of health economics, health policy and health administration, and people who are interested in Chinese social policy.

Before 1978, China was backward economically, politically, diplomatically and was extremely isolated.

Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.2 billion Indians into the world's labour equation within a context of lower production costs. This resulted in erosion of its competitive capacity and social stability, while greatly benefiting developing economies, many of which were able to emerge with unprecedented speed. With China as the main engine, the developing economies have become increasingly integrated, sustaining in the process a fundamental part of the global trade growth. While this phenomenon took shape, excesses within Western economies generated a seismic crisis that dramatically accelerated a slow decline. As the ascendant and descendant curves of developing and developed economies are crossing each other, a decoupling tendency between both has become evident. The economic partnership between China and Latin America epitomizes well the growing integration between emerging economies. Even if mostly benefiting from it, Latin America is under the double sign of threat and opportunity due to this complex relation. For Latin America to prevail, it will need to reinvent itself. The analyses and information contained in this book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers alike.

China has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities. This volume examines the key issues involved in establishing social protection for them, including a critical examination of deficiencies in arrangements and a study of proposals that have been offered for extending social security coverage.