Beef in China: Agribusiness Opportunities and Challenges. By John W. Longworth, Colin G. Brown and Scott A. Waldron. [St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2001. xix+412 pp. ISBN 0-7022-3231-9.]

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The Chinese beef industry has grown phenomenally over the last two decades, with output increasing nearly 20-fold and China now being ranked as the third largest beef producer in the world after the United States and Brazil. The authors of Beef in China note that this Chinese ‘beef revolution’ has been scarcely documented in the literature, including Chinese language materials, and set about this task.