1. Rising China and its integration with the changing world economy / Liming Wang -- 2. Rising China: its strength and problems / Gregory C. Chow -- 3. Evolution after revolution: the Chinese c̀laiming state' between history and textbook economics / Giuseppe Gabusi -- 4. Continental drift: China and the global economic crisis / Sangaralingam Ramesh -- 5. Chinese MNCs in Latin America / Alan Butt-Philip -- 6. An exploration of pyramidal business groups in China / Jing Wang -- 7. Sustaining the growth of China's SMEs through ICT: recent experience of policy initiatives and their implementation / Qi Wang -- 8. Fiscal reform, ownership restructuring and corporate objectives in Chinese state-owned enterprises / Da Teng -- 9. Cultural distance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions of China: empirical evidence from the electricity industry / Lei Wang -- 10. R & D, direct technology transfer and productivity growth: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industries / Yanbing Wu -- 11. The distribution of income and well-being in rural China: a survey of panel data sets, studies and new directions / Xi Chen -- 12. Determinants of China's inter-regional equalization of basic public services / Xuebing Tang -- 13. Does real effective exchange rate volatility affect foreign direct investment? Evidence from China / Siyue Liu -- 14. Cost efficiency of banks in China: a stochastic frontier analysis / Yizhe Dong -- 15. The effect of historical events on the speed of price evolution indexed by an operational time for China's futures market / Donal Mckillop -- 16. Poverty in Shenzhen / Jinjun Xue.