Introduction

This volume, China as a Global Clean Energy Champion (hereafter "the book" or "China and Clean Energy") is a substantial contribution to energy research and scholarship. I am hopeful that it will provoke additional and similar research in some of China's energy sectors that are not covered in the book. Of course, at the outset, I want to forewarn the reader that this book is a dense, deep, complex piece of writing. Your experience will be much different from reading a recent copy of Time Magazine. The book is intelligently arranged in eleven chapters with each ...