THOMAS CHAN is Head of China Business Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was previously Research Officer at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Baptist University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on topics including FDI in China, industrial development in China and Taiwan and on the Asian financial crisis.NOEL TRACY is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Flinders University of South Australia where he has worked since 1992. Previously he was lecturer in the Division of Commerce and Administration at Griffith University in Brisbane. His previous books include: The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China and Asian Entrepreneurs in AustraliaZHU WENHUI is Research Associate, China Business Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He previously worked as research assistant, China Business Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and lecturer, People's University of China. He has published widely on the economies of East Asia.