As Hong Kong’s neighbour and as the most dynamic province of China, Guangdong is in search of a new direction of development. This book consists of 14 chapters and discusses…

Intends to survey the developments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in various important areas in its first decade (1997-2007). This work aims to critically review past developments…

Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese authorities have gradually come to embrace multilateralism to realize their basic foreign policy objectives in maintaining a peaceful international environment and enhancing China’s international status…

The Chinese state has always been a religious one, in which pantheons and rituals were central political concerns. But while the state regularly refined its definition of orthodoxy, Chinese local…

Illustrates the state of the art in spine quality reporting: There is no text that thoroughly addresses quality assessment and quality reporting in spine care; Provides insight on quality reporting…

At the end of the 20th Century, the focus of global attention and concern is on the future relationship between the world’s most influential nation and its most populous one…

After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state - the People’s Republic of China - does not only manage…

This volume aims to study preparations for China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the part of the Guangdong provincial government, local governments, enterprises and individuals.