Introduction: The Chinese Capital Market

As one of the leading academic finance journals based in Europe, The European Journal of Finance published five special issues on the Chinese capital market, based on a series of conferences which began in 2009 at the University of Durham. The conferences brought together academics from all over the world to discuss the experiences and challenges characterizing the development of China’s capital market. Given that the global economic growth and competitiveness are shifting increasingly towards emerging economies, each conference attracted more than 60 submissions by researchers based in a wide variety of countries such as Australia, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the US among others, indicating a surge of academic interest throughout the world on the development and growth of China as an increasingly influential emerging economy.