This collection of research articles on the economic expansion of Southern China explores models and patterns of development in Guangdong, focusing on the differences across this region. Issues discussed include: metropolitan development in Guangzhou municipal city; civil service reform and social policy in Shenzhen; Guangzhou's municipal leadership; the basic level elections in the region since 1979; foreign investment in Guangdong; and the emergence of private education in the Pearl River Delta. The contributors show how the use of competing models of economic development will influence and...