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Economic And Social Development In South China

Edited by Stewart MacPherson, Professor of Comparative Social Administration and Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng, Contemporary China Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1996 344 pp Hardback 978 1 85898 301 1 £73.00 on-line discount £65.70

‘The authors are to be complimented for doing a thorough job of compiling all aspects of reforms in the region.’
– K. Khanna, USI Journal

‘. . . this collection provides a broad, balanced view of the recent socio-economic change in China’s most prosperous province.’
– Yi-min Lin, The China Journal

Authoritative and contemporary research on the economic expansion of Southern China is collected in this major new volume which explores models and patterns of development in Guangdong, with particular emphasis on the differences across this economically vibrant region.

Contents: Preface (J.Y.S.Cheng) 1. Measuring Economic and Social Development: Statistical Data on the Pearl River Delta (S. MacPherson, K.-Y. Lau) 2. Structures and Functions of Town and Township Governments in Guangdong (J.Y.S. Cheng) 3. Civil Service Reform in Shenzhen: Expectations and Problems (A.B.L. Cheung) 4. The Basic-Level Elections in Guangzhou Since 1979 (K.-K. Leung) 5. Guangzhou’s Municipal Leadership and Development Strategy in the 1990s (P. Cheung) 6. Strategy and Motivation for PRC Outward Direct Investments with Particular Reference to Enterprises from the Pearl River Delta (C.-S. Tseng, S.K.M. Mak) 7. Foreign Investments as an Engine of Economic Growth: the case of Guangdong (X. Zhang, W.-S. Hung 8. Individual Economy in the Pearl River Delta Region: A Study on Dongguan, Guangzhou, Zongshan and Nanhai (W.-N. Ho) 9. Welfare in a Stratified Immigrant Society – Shenzhen’s Social Policy Challenge (L. Wong, G. Lee) 10. Social Status of Occupations in Guangzhou (C.C.H. Chiu, H. Cai) 11. The Emergence of Private Education in the Pearl River Delta: Implications for Social Development (K.-H. Mok, D. Chan) 12. Ecology and Economic Reform: Towards an Effective Environmental Law in Southern China? (B. Bachner) 13. Reforms of Metropolitan Development in Guangzhou Municipal City (R.C.K. Chan, C. Gu) Index Contributors: B. Bachner, H. Cai, D. Chan, R.C.K.Chan, G. Chaolin, A.B.L. Cheung, J.Y.S.Cheng, C.C.H. Chiu, W.-S. Hung, K.-Y. Lau, G. Lee, K.-K. Leung, W.-K. Leung, S. MacPherson, S.K.M. Mak, K.-H. Mok, C.-S. Tseng, L. Wong, X. Zhang





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