Table of Contents:
  • 1. Provinces in competition : region, identity and cultural construction / Hans Hendrischke
  • 2. Selling Guizhou : cultural development in an era of marketisation / Tim Oakes
  • 3. Shaanxi : the search for comparative advantage / Andrew Watson, Yang Xueyi and Jiao Xingguo
  • 4. Uneven development : prosperity and poverty in Jiangsu / J. Bruce Jacobs
  • 5. Hubei : rising abruptly over central China? / Zhao Ling Yun
  • 6. Tianjin : quiet achiever? / Hans Hendrischke
  • 7. King coal and Secretary Hu : Shanxi's third modernisation / David S.G. Goodman
  • 8. Jiangxi in reform : the fear of exclusion and the search for a new identity / Feng Chongyi.