Significant Issues Series 172 pp. William J. Taylor Jr. This volume examines developments since the signing of the Agreed Framework between the United States and North Korea in 1994. Asian Studies Report 81 pp. This is the first comprehensive scholarly examination of China's economic reforms in the telecommunications sector. It is a fascinating description of the complex Chinese process of modernization, reform, and reaction.
China is an awakening economic giant but an information-age dwarf.
Mueller and Tan examine China's torturous road to advanced information highways and provide a long-needed comprehensive volume on China's telecommunications system. He analyzes the prospects for continued high growth and economic reform in the People's Republic of China. The role of external economic relations in China's economic development, particularly with Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, and Japan, is a lso discussed. Significant Issues Series 84 pp. Section one examines China's economic development and trade interactions with Taiwan and Hong Kong.