Product Description: Financial reform has been a major concern for China's transitional economy - especially in the realms of banking and insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This work scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during the process of institutional transformation, and demonstrates that they are now facing severe challenges as well as opportunities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work aims at developing a numerical simulation method, Soft PARticle Code (SPARC). The term textit{soft} emphasizes that no boundaries between particles are defined and every particle possesses a support consisting of a set of adjacent particles...read more

Product Description: Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, reform of its science and technology system has deepened. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the high-tech sector, examining Chinese hi-tech industry policy, the emergence of industrial clusters, the R&D activities of multinational corporations operating in China, and the prospect of commercialization of hi-tech achievements...read more