China and India: Comparative Perspectives - A Reader By Ravni Thakur. India Research Press, April 2006, 240 pages In this upcoming book, Thakur presents an overview of India and China in the early 21st century by comparing and con-trasting timely topics such as trade and economy, society and culture, governance and policy planning and bilateral ties. Al-ternating expert opinions from both China and India are pro-vided to analyze how administrative decisions are made in the two countries and how the systems are different from each other both in result and in form. The book also examines the way China and India have dealt and continue to deal with such issues as emerging trade patterns, modern consumer booms, and deepening economic divides.


Technological Superpower China By Jon Sigurdson, Jiang Jiang and Xinxin Kong. Edward Elgar Publish-ing, January 2006, 368 pages Sigurdson's new work shows how China is emerging as a technologi-cal superpower within the global economy through its effi cient re-source mobilization and clever in-tegration of national R&D programs with the innovation systems of na-tional and international corpora-tions. Sigurdson provides detailed information on and insights into China's knowledge base in technology and R&D following its dra-matic advance in the early 1980s. He explores how improvement in higher education, human resources development, technology access through FDI, technology transfer, ICT, space and defense technology and corporate technology are being employed in the move towards the future status of an advanced knowledge economy nation.