Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Charts, Tables, Boxes and Appendixes -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Development, Resource Governance and Globalisation: The Growth of China's Resources Companies -- 2 Resource Security and Corporate Social...

The rise of large resources companies in China -- The regulatory environment of listed companies in China -- Understanding governance in the resources sector companies : is disclosure adequate? -- Are owners really in control? -- Corporate goverance in the world's leading resources companies :...

This article discusses the extent to which rule of law principles have been embraced within the language, principles and practice of China’s Company Law. The paper discusses different understandings of the rule of law that are to be found in the wider literature. Whilst China has affirmed the...

China's ‘Go Global' strategy has encouraged Chinese companies to seek to enhance China's resource security through acquisitions in foreign markets. Under the influence of this policy, Chinese companies have greatly increased outbound investment in recent years, and one consequence of this...

In recent years, China's ‘Go Global' policy has encouraged Chinese companies to go abroad to invest; inevitably this increased investment activity has generated a range of tensions and commercial disputes. The legal cultures that have shaped the mind-sets of parties to these commercial...

Many countries have benefited greatly from an influx of investment from China; much of this investment has come from Chinese State-owned enterprises (SOEs). Functioning as China's national champions, Chinese SOEs have been the vehicles for the Chinese government to obtain resources from the...

China's corporate insolvency law regime was in a state of transition for a relatively long period of time, with the major, but temporary, body of legislation dealing specifically with enterprise bankruptcy having been passed in 1986 . The inadequacy of China's existing insolvency law become...