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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Encounters with International Trade Standards: China and the WTO -- 2 Performance of International Trade Standards I: Contract Law in China -- 3 Performance of International Trade Standards II: Property Law in China -- 4 Encounters with International Human Rights Standards -- 5 Treaty Performance on Human Rights: Sustainability and Social Justice -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 - Methodological Discussion -- Appendix 2 - Testing Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity: Experiment Design -- Notes -- Index.

This book examines the Chinese government's policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development. China's history may be seen as one of managing the geographic periphery surrounding China proper. Successive imperial, republican, and communist governments have struggled to maintain sovereignty over the regions surrounding the great river valleys of China. The importance of the peripher.