List of ContributorsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Change in Contemporary ChinaChina: Economic and Regional Change2 Monetary Policy and Structural Changes in the Financial Sector in China3 China’s Foreign Exchange Policy in a Time of Change4 The Reform of China’s Foreign Trade Regime in the First Decade of the New Millennium5 State-Owned Enterprises: A Review of Development Dynamics, Contemporary Problems and the Shape of the Future6 Regional Economic Development Strategies in ChinaChina: Social and Political Change7 Social Welfare Reform in China: The Impact of Globalisation8 Behind the Virtual Wall: The People’s Republic of China and the Internet9 Challenges and Opportunites for Unification after Taiwan’s 2000 Presidential Elections10 Rational Authoritarianism and Chinese Economic Reform11 (Post-) Asian ‘Crisis’ and ‘Greater China’: On the Bursting of the ‘Bubbles’ and Hi-Tech (Re-)ImaginationsChina: Developments in External Relations12 China and the United States: An Uneasy and Unstable Relationship13 Re-assessing the Sino-Japanese Axis in the New Strategic Triangle: A Case for Peaceful Co-existence?14 China and ASEAN: Setting Parameters for Future Co-operation15 The Politics of the European Union’s Relations with ChinaChina: Conclusions16 China at the Start of the New MillenniumIndex