China in Transition

The authors focus on the important, controversial issues and policies of contemporary China. These include new intellectual currents and re-assessment of socialism in the PRC, grassroots political participation in rural China, public maladministration and bureaucratic corruption, and legal reform.

DAVID TEATHER obtained batchelor and doctoral degrees at University College London. He subsequently held academic appointments at the Universities of London, Liverpool, Otago and New England, before taking up the post of Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist University. His recent books include Higher Education in a Post-Binary Era and (with Alex Fung and Others) Information Technology in Educational Management for Schools of the Future.

HERBERT S. YEE is an Associate Professor in Government and International Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University. He has authored or edited seven books on Chinese politics in Chinese.