Amazon.com description: Product Description: With the help of unprecedented access to information from Chinese enterprises, this book analyzes China's far-reaching industrial reforms, presenting the results of a unique collaborative research project between Chinese and Western economists whose analysis is already influencing the course of ongoing reforms. While most of the papers focus on China, there are also contributions on Hungarian enterprise reform and a comparison of the Chinese and Soviet systems. This is a book with important implications for other socialist and developing countries.