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China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl and associate editor of the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Dr. Tarefder has about 500 publications in pavement engineering.brbrbr Latin America is attracting increasingThis book lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization by showing: (1) what is happening to the industrial forces that help shape the economy; (2) how economic agents have behaved; (3) what government intentions really are; and (4) how the transition from a centralized to a market oriented economy has been filled with contradictions and difficult choices. The author examines issues such as China's WTO membership; the Three