Yabuki and Harner both give a general and broad view of China's economic transformation with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1978. However, the two rely heavily on government statistics and the book can become dense with the charts, plots and tables. This edition is radically revised from the first edtion with Harner adding statistics and relevant material since the first edition. A nice reader about China for the economically and numerically-minded, but if this is your first book about China today, I would reccommend Gasster's "China's struggle to modernize" or Spence's "The search for modern China" or Schell and Shambaugh's recent "China Reader" as better alternatives.