This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…

The decline in manufacturing industry in Hong Kong—22% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 1987, 6.5% in 1997—is nothing new and has been much debated….

When there are vast areas of the economic and sociological literature on China devoted to those mastodons—the state-owned enterprises (SOEs)—whose never-ending death throes paralyse Chinese…