The Chinese Business Environment

`This volume is an extraordinary asset, whether for the analyst, the investor or the policymaker. It provides an extremely valuable window onto the rich and diverse literature on the dynamics of the Chinese business environment.' - Andrew MacIntyre, The Australian National University

`This is a very useful reference on China in general and the country's business environment in particular. The stupendous growth of the Chinese economy will prove to be one of the most important events in world economic history. Scholars on China would find this book a valuable research tool.' - Hong Hai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

`Fuming Jiang and Bruce Stening perform a great service for those interested in the Chinese business environment with this comprehensive and clearly organized annotated bibliography of publications on the subject. It is an absolutely invaluable source for anyone wanting to access the exploding literature on the rapidly changing environment of the world's next economic superpower.' - John Child, University of Birmingham, UK

`This bibliography will be appreciated, and, I am sure, widely consulted by international business scholars. The authors are to be congratulated on assembling and annotating such a varied, yet highly contemporary and worthy collection of writings.' - John H. Dunning, University of Reading, UK and Rutgers University, US

This unique annotated bibliography contains the most important studies of the Chinese business environment, comprising almost 1000 references to articles published in English-language journals in the past fifteen years or so. The editors have sought to focus on those writings that deal fairly directly with the impact of the Chinese business environment on foreign firms doing business in China. Each work is fully referenced in a standard format, has a brief description of its subject matter and has been given a classification code - ensuring quick and easy identification of all articles on any given subject.

The indexes include a joint author index and a subject classification index which make the bibliography easily navigable and usable. There is also an introduction by the editors explaining the rationale behind the book and the selection criteria, along with a description of how it may be used most efficiently.

This book will serve as an invaluable reference book for scholars and researchers of Asian studies - China most particularly - and international business. Senior executives and middle level managers of multinational corporations who have been operating in, or who wish to do business in and with China would also find this a useful and rich source of information.