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Understanding Currency Policy and Central Banking in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2013

Gregory T. Chin
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China's trade and financial surpluses, exchange rate, and currency reserves make headlines, daily, around the world. As such, it is more imperative than ever to understand the inner workings of currency policy in China. Yet the exercise of power and decision making in these areas has received surprisingly little attention in Chinese politics, political economy, and, arguably, economics.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , August 2013 , pp. 519 - 538
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 

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