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Given the extraordinary pace of across-the-board expansion in Korea-China relations, the lack of assessments on the state of studies of contemporary Chinese politics in Korea is a crucial void to be filled. This evaluative article first offers a socio-demographic sketch of the Korean scholarly community of contemporary Chinese politics. More specifically, it examines how the epistemological community has evolved over the last half century in terms of generational and orientational changes. The second section assesses scholarly outputs in the field of contemporary Chinese politics by looking at monographs, refereed journal articles and doctoral dissertations produced by Korean scholars. The article concludes with some suggestions for further advancement of the studies of contemporary Chinese politics, which may be applicable to Korea as well as to the peer communities in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the three measures, namely, turning prefectures into cities, turning counties into cities and turning cities and counties into urban districts, that have contributed to the inflated urbanization in China. Discussion of budgetary, urbanization, regulatory, organizational streamlining and policy incentive to see if the three measures have either originated from or have affected them; Relation of the issue of urbanization to the system of household registration classification; Illustration of the relevance of the five propositions to each of the three changes during the post-Mao era.

Focuses on the coastal recipe of development with the case of the province of Qingdao in China. Criteria of selecting Qingdao as the major case; Historical and natural endowments and economic performance of Qingdao; Targeted preferential policies from Beijing; Characteristics of municipal leadership; Transnational and inter-regional linkages for foreign economic cooperation.

This article, focusing on the "revive the northeast" programme, examines four questions: why was the northeast region selected as yet another macro-site for Beijing-endorsed scheme of regional development; how does it differ from the "develop the west" scheme; what does the "revive the northeast" scheme entail in concrete policy terms; and how can we assess the impact of this scheme on the region's economic development? While it offers a relatively positive assessment of the programme's impact in facilitating a faster growth during 2004-06, future challenges are also noted for a sustainable development of the northeast region as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]