The three transformations of global capitalism / Ho-Fung Hung -- China's market economy in the long run / Giovanni Arrighi -- Rethinking the Chinese developmental miracle / Alvin Y. So -- Big suppliers in greater China: a growing counterweight to the power of giant retailers / Richard P. Appelbaum -- The "rise of China" and the changing world income distribution / Jozsef Borocz -- China's economic ascent at Japan's raw-materials peripheries / Paul S. Ciccantell -- Sino-Russian geoeconomic integration : an alternative to Chinese hegemony on a shrinking planet / John Gulick -- China and the U.S. labor movement / Stephanie Luce and Edna Bonacich -- China as an emerging epicenter of world labor unrest / Beverly J. Silver and Lu Zhang -- A caveat: is the rise of China sustainable? / Ho-Fung Hung.