This publication, comprising three EAI Background Briefs, presents events, comments and analyses related to China's recently concluded Fifteenth Party Congress. It should be of topical interest to readers who want to keep abreast of the latest developments in China.Contents:Good Political Arithmetick: China's Economy on the Eve of the Fifteenth Party Congress (J Wong)Power to Set Own Agenda: Jiang Zemin's New Political Initiatives at China's Fifteenth Party Congress (Y-N Zheng & Z-Y Zou)Reforming China's State-Owned Enterprises: Problems and Prospects (J Wong & P K Sim)Readership: General.Key Features:One of the first books exposing the theory of minimal submanifolds in the general setting of pseudo-Riemannian geometryAn accessible text suitable for students, yet of interest to researchers in differential geometry and mathematical physicsShowcases several of the most recent research results on the subject in a unified and easily understood presentation