(Hardback)

Well-traveled throughout China and well-published on its political, cultural, and business aspects, the editors of this unusual new book and their contributing authors give a systematic analysis of public sector managementas it is now and as it is emergingin a country of massive size, now in retreat from a centrally planned economy.

(Paperback)

Offers descriptions of the growing and harvesting process; the inventory of tools and paraphernalia required to smoke opium as the Chinese did; its transitions from a major herb to a narcotic that has been suppressed by the modern; and art, culture, philosophy, pharmacology and psychology of this longstanding Asian custom.