<P>This book analyzes credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas.<BR><BR>After China¿s Reform and Opening Up in the 1970s, a slew of new problems involving integrity, trust, and credit appeared with the establishment of a market economy and the creation of new business opportunities. To track these phenomena down to their very origins and to explore the theoretical principles underlying them through a truly holistic sociology, this book highlights a native Chinese perspective when dissecting and analyzing the characteristics of their origins, mechanisms, and manifestations.<BR> <BR>The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of economic sociology, Chinese studies and those who are interested in the sociology of credibility in general.</P>