• South China Morning Post
  • South China Morning Post (Feb 1, 2001): "Venture Capitalists Move on Beijing"
• Only on the Web: Fifty years of communism in China NYT, Oct.1999 In a discussion arranged by The Times on the Web, experts consider the state of modern China in this exclusive audio report. Additional features include a collection of articles, maps, slide shows and reader discussions that bring you a detailed look at the religious, economic and military issues facing Communist China.
• China Site [www.chinasite.com] The site has more than 8,500 links to China- related Web sites in dozens of categories. Each link has a short description and a rating, and tells you what language the site is in (English or Chinese).

• World Economy & China [http://www.wechina.com/]

  "Published by the highest research institute in China: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Articles written by experts and outstanding economists both from China and abroad. Hot issues: the relationship between world economy and China being discussed."

• Consulting in and on China
• Internet Guide to China Studies [http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/] (Heidelberg, Virtual Library)
• China Window [http://www.china-window.com/][REGIONAL LINKS]
• China Goldlink [http://www.china-goldlink.com/] (China Server [out of Canada])
  • Economic Zones
  • Universities

• China The Beautiful: Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy [http://www.chinapage.com]

• Education Strategies in China

• Inside China Today (with video) [http://www.insidechina.com/]

• Chen, Chien-Hsun and Hui-Tzu Shih. The evolution of the Stockmarket in China's Transitional Economy. 2002 [HG5782 C4315/Suzz]

  Cochran, Sherman. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese and Chinese Corporations in China 1880-1937. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley 2000. [HD69.S8.C63.2000, Suz]

• Barry Naughton, Editor The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong As the British relinquish control of Hong Kong, the economic relationship among the People's Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, and Hong Kong becomes especially significant. Despite political and diplomatic tensions, this relationship has grown phenomenally in recent years and continues to prosper. Known as the "China Circle," it is an important emerging economic region that cuts across political boundaries.

• Country Index - China and Hong Kong [Recent Overview Papers on Chinese Economy]

• Hong Kong Economy and Trade (Steven F. Jackson, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania)

• Polenske, Karen R., Chinese Economic Planning and Input-Output Analysis. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1991. (Co-editor with Chen Xikang.)

• Sun, Xiuping. New progress in China's special economic zones [chief editors, Gao Shangquan and Chi Fulin ; written by, Sun Xiuping, Chen Wen, and Lei Xiansheng.] Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, 1997. [EAsia General Stacks HC427.92 .S9415 1997]

• Wei, Yingqi and Xiaming Lu, Foreign Direct Investment in China: Determinants and Impact. Elgar 2001 [HG5782 W43 2001/Suzz]

• Wu, Wei-ping. Pioneering economic reform in China's special economic zones : the promotion of foreign investment and technology transfer in Shenzhen. Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, 1999. xiii, 167 p. ; 23 cm. Shen-chen-shih-China -- Economic-conditions. Investments-Foreign -- China -- Shen-chen-shih. Shen-chen-Economic-Zone-Shen-chen-shih-China. [Suzzallo General Stacks HC428.S53 W82 1999]

• The Economy of China (Giorgio Secondi) The following is a selective list of sites that provide information on the economy of China. Please note that this is not a site on "doing business with China." Rather, the page tries to point to resources that may help us understand the distinctive features of the Chinese economic system and the process of economic development and economic transition that is taking place in China."

• Boeing and China [from Boeing's Corporate Page]

• Business Week, Special Report, Sept. 29, 1997
  • AT TSINGTAO, IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM DRINK
  • CAN CHINA REFORM ITS ECONOMY?
  • WHY A WEALTHY CHINA GETS WORLD BANK BACKING

Davin, Delia. INTERNAL MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA / DELIA DAVIN. Houndmills, Basingstoke : Macmillan Press ; New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Fan, C. Cindy Numerous publications on Chinese Population geography, regional development, post-Mao China (regional policy, migration, inequality, gender), ethnicity, quantitative methods, spatial modeling. [Associate Professor of Geography Chair, Asian American Studies Interdepartmental Program Department of Geography University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)]

Russian Far East:

Virtual Tour of Siberia

ACTR US Educational Information Center

Russian Resources (Delia Rosenblatt's Geography 333 [1995?])

• "A premier website for doing business with India"
• Web India (Business Directory & News)
• IndiaLine: India's First Daily Internet Webzine

  "IndiaWorld, India's largest Web site, has launched IndiaLine, India's first daily Webzine about the Internet scenario in India. The goal is to educate and inform Indian Internet users about the strategic advantage of the Internet as well as to provide the outside world with a timely and comprehensive source of news about the Internet in India. IndiaLine features daily news, interviews, columns, case studies, Web site reviews, reference information, and user discussion about the Internet in India."

• Arogyam started its activities in a remote village called Pirauta, about 25-km interior from the district headquarters in Saran. From here it was decided to evolve its rural campus and training centre with Field Action Projects, spread in Pirauta and other nearby villages. Winning the trust of villagers in the caste-ridden, insular rural society took nearly three years. Both the powerful and the power-deprived sections of the village society found their own reasons to distrust Arogyam...
• India trying to reduce high-tech brain drain Copyright © 1998 Nando.net Copyright © 1998 Reuters News Service "BOMBAY, India (April 15, 1998 12:31 p.m. EDT http://www.nando.net) - For many years India watched helplessly as its best scientific and engineering talent, fostered at great expense to the state, left the country for better prospects abroad. But rapid electronic communications and career openings created by accelerating economic reform have helped to turn the tide, analysts say. The reform process has resulted in better living standards, encouraging many Indians well established overseas to take the plunge and return home [...] "Now India is no longer backward," Mukhi, who works at TIFR, said. "Ten years back it would have been a remoter island but now with facilities like e-mail we are keeping ourselves abreast of the latest developments every hour."".
• About Internet India
• India's Software Industry [http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/isi.htm] The site (Richard Heeks) contains:
  • Software export figures for 1980-1997/98
  • Breakdown of costs for hiring Indian software labour (onsite and offshore)
  • Links to other online Indian software/IT resources
  • Details of publications analysing the Indian software industry
• Microsoft India
  • Microsoft's Man in India: An MIT whiz kid leads the U.S. giant's charge
  • Microsoft Plans Software Development Centre in India Centre to focus on Windows NT and BackOffice interoperability

    MUMBAI – March, 24 1998…. Microsoft Corporation today announced plans to establish a software development centre in Hyderabad, India. Subject to clearance by regulatory agencies, the facility will become operational during the second half of 1998 and will focus development work on the interoperability of Windows NT and BackOffice products with non-Microsoft platforms."

• Thomas L. Friedman, "U.S. jobs lost to India's Generation Z", Seattle PI, 24 February 2004. "The Zippies Are Here," declared the Indian weekly magazine Outlook. Zippies are this huge cohort of Indian youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade, the information revolution and turning itself into the world's service center.

• India to Produce More Techies Reuters/Wired, Nov. 1, 2000 PST

  BANGALORE, India -- India will double the student capacity of engineering colleges in the country next year to meet surging demand for skilled technology professionals, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

• PDT Thursday, August 17, 2000 Cisco to invest $150 mln in India BANGALORE, India, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc said on Thursday that it would invest $150 million to expand its technology development centre in India over the next two years. ... (Nando)

• STPI
  • "Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous organisation, has been set up by the Government of India under the Department of Electronics (DoE), with the objective of promoting export of computer software from the country. DoE has set up STP's at Bangalore, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Noida (near Delhi), and Gandhinagar (near Ahmedabad) under STPI. The State Governments of Rajastan and West Bengal have also setup STP's at Jaipur and Calcutta respectively."
  • STPI Map (Centers)
  • Locational Advantages of The International Infotech Park of Navi Mumbai [Bombay]
  • Software Technology Parks of India, Bangalore

  
  

• Hi, I'm in Bangalore (but I Dare Not Tell), NYT, March 21, 2001 By MARK LANDLER

• Auroville

  "Auroville is an emerging township in rural South India that dedicates itself to the evolution of consciousness and to the creation of an actual human unity. Recognized for its special status by the Government of India and repeatedly endorsed by UNESCO since its inception in l968, Auroville is home to over 1,500 people from 40 countries and all parts of India. It is a place where people from different nations and different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds seek to live and work together in a spirit of mutual respect and collaboration." (April 2000)

• Preserving a piece of home in a high-tech world: Attracted to U.S. by technology, Indians yearn for familiar things News Tribune (Tacoma), Aug.7, 2000

  
  

• Literature:
  • Heeks, Richard. India's Software Industry. Sage Publications, 1996.
  • AnnaLee Saxenian, Bangalore: The Silicon Valley of Asia?, May 2000.
  • Singh, Kavaljit. The reality of foreign investments : German investments in India, 1991-1996. Delhi : Madhyam Books, 1997. 83 pp. Copyright: Public Interest Research Group. [Investments-German -- India. Investments-Foreign -- India. Technology-transfer -- Germany. Technology-transfer -- Economic-aspects -- India. Investments-Foreign -- Government-policy -- India. Suzzallo General Stacks HG5732 .S54 1997]

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