Product Description: Well-traveled throughout China and well-published on its political, cultural, and business aspects, the editors of this unusual new book and their contributing authors give a systematic analysis of public sector management—as it is now and as it is emerging—in a country of massive size, now in retreat from a centrally planned economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is a review of evidence relating exposure to environmental tobacco smoke to mortality in adults who have never smoked, concluding that no adverse effect has been demonstrated. The design, key findings, strengths and weaknesses of 53 epidemiological studies providing evidence are discussed and the data on cancer, heart disease and other diseases as well as the overall risk of mortality are analyzed...read more

Product Description: Confronting the theoretical issues of policy-making, the author presents a systematic and coherent analysis of economic reform in China's industrial sector. Lee draws on interviews and an array of previously unexamined primary sources--confidential papers, State regulations and directives--to provide a theoretical account of the decline of State organization in the economic sphere and the rise of market socialism...read more