Chinas Energy Relations with the Developing World, edited by Carrie Liu Currier and Manochehr Dorraj . London: Continuum, 2011. xiv + 221 pp. £17.99/US$29.95 (paperback).
The Chinese economy has experienced unprecedented development over the past 30 years. By 2010, China had not only become the world's largest exporter and the second largest economy, after the United States, but had also increased its GDP per capita from US$193 in 1980 to US$4,428, according to the World Bank. Such success has come at a cost, and there have been heated debates, especially over the past decade, about issues such as its deteriorating environment, its increasing emissions of greenhouse gases and its …