Changing Corporate Governance Practices in China and Japan

YASUHIRO ARIKAWA is Associate Professor at Waseda University Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law, Tokyo. ANNE CARVER is a Professional Consultant at the School of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. WEI CHI is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. SAY H GOO is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. XIAORONG GU is Director of the Law Institute, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai. HIDEAKI MIYAJIMA is Professor at the School of Commerce at Waseda University, Tokyo. PITMAN POTTER is the Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver JIANGYU WANG is Associate Professor at the School of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. SHULIANG WANG is Researcher at the Law Institute, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghia. YIJIANG WANG is Professor at the Industrial Relations Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Specialterm Professor at the Department of Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing ANMING ZHANG is Authority Professor in Air Transportation, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

• Foreword; Pitman Potter Introduction; Masao Nakamura PART I. NEW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES: INSTITUTIONAL AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS The Two Models Of Corporate Governance And The Institutional Reform Of Chinese Enterprises; Peng Fei Yang How To Prevent China's Listed Companies From Making Misstatement; Xiaorong Gu Issues In The Protection Of Minority Shareholders' Rights And Interests Under China's Company Law; Shuliang Wang An Economic Perspective On Recent Corporate Governance Developments In China, With Comments On The Chapters by Peng Fei Yang, Xiaorong Gu and Shuliang Wang;  Andrew Yuen and Anming Zhang Grabbing Hand And Corporate Governance In China; Wei Chi and Yijiang Wang Corporate Governance Practices In Post-Bubble Japan: Implications Of Institutional And Legal Reforms In The 1990s And Early 2000s; Masao Nakamura Understanding M&A Wave In Japan; Yasuhiro Arikawa And Hideaki Miyajima PART II. EVOLVING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES: SELECTIVE ADAPTATIONS The Strange Role Of Independent Directors In A Two-Tier Board Structure Of China's Listed Companies; Jiangyu Wang Low Structure, High Ambiguity: Selective Adaptation Of International Norms Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms In China; S. H. Goo And Anne Carver Selective Adaptation Of Anglo-American Corporate Governance Practices In Japan; Masao Nakamura INDEX