Anita Chan is an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow hosted by The Australian National University and co-editor of the China Journal. Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University.

• Comparing Vietnam and China: An IntroductionChapter 1: Exalting the Latecomer State: Intellectuals and the State During the Chinese and Vietnamese ReformsChapter 2: From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam and China ComparedChapter 3: Asian Socialism’s Open Doors: Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh CityChapter 4: Agrarian Transformations in China and VietnamChapter 5: Wealth and Power in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern VietnamChapter 6: Political Change in China and Vietnam: Coping with the Consequences of Economic ReformChapter 7: Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990sChapter 8: Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence

A wonderfully successful effort at collaboration that not only fulfills its methodological goals, but which is full of insights. . . . This is an extremely worthwhile book that specialists and teachers alike will find very useful. I recommend it highly.

Anita Chan is an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow hosted by The Australian National University and co-editor of the China Journal. Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University.

• Comparing Vietnam and China: An IntroductionChapter 1: Exalting the Latecomer State: Intellectuals and the State During the Chinese and Vietnamese ReformsChapter 2: From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam and China ComparedChapter 3: Asian Socialism’s Open Doors: Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh CityChapter 4: Agrarian Transformations in China and VietnamChapter 5: Wealth and Power in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern VietnamChapter 6: Political Change in China and Vietnam: Coping with the Consequences of Economic ReformChapter 7: Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990sChapter 8: Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence

A wonderfully successful effort at collaboration that not only fulfills its methodological goals, but which is full of insights. . . . This is an extremely worthwhile book that specialists and teachers alike will find very useful. I recommend it highly.

Anita Chan is an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow hosted by The Australian National University and co-editor of the China Journal. Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University.

• Comparing Vietnam and China: An IntroductionChapter 1: Exalting the Latecomer State: Intellectuals and the State During the Chinese and Vietnamese ReformsChapter 2: From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam and China ComparedChapter 3: Asian Socialism’s Open Doors: Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh CityChapter 4: Agrarian Transformations in China and VietnamChapter 5: Wealth and Power in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern VietnamChapter 6: Political Change in China and Vietnam: Coping with the Consequences of Economic ReformChapter 7: Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990sChapter 8: Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence

A wonderfully successful effort at collaboration that not only fulfills its methodological goals, but which is full of insights. . . . This is an extremely worthwhile book that specialists and teachers alike will find very useful. I recommend it highly.