ABSTRACT
As we made clear in the Introduction ( Chapter 1 ), this book is the result of a conference that was held in May 2013 in Beijing. This conference constituted a follow-up to an earlier conference held in Beijing in May 2012, which resulted in a book with the same publisher. 1 Whereas the fi rst volume largely (and relatively broadly) focused on issues related to economics and regulation in China, the second conference, and hence this book, provided a more narrow focus by concentrating on law and fi nance and more particularly on the role of law and regulation in sustaining fi nancial markets.
