1. Editorial

   • Robert Louis Flood

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 1

2. Systems Practice in China: New Developments and Cross-Cultural Collaborations

   • Gerald Midgley
   • Jennifer Wilby

   Editorial Commentary Pages: 3 - 9

3. Knowing Wuli, Sensing Shili, Caring for Renli: Methodology of the WSR Approach

   • Jifa Gu
   • Zhichang Zhu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 20

4. Dealing with a Differentiated Whole: The Philosophy of the WSR Approach

   • Zhichang Zhu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 57

5. Designing a Water Resources Management Decision Support System: An Application of the WSR Approach

   • Jifa Gu
   • Xijin Tang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

6. Dealing with Human Relations in Chinese Systems Practice

   • Gerald Midgley
   • Jifa Gu
   • David Campbell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 96

7. A Framework of Value-Focused Systems Thinking

   • Jingcai Han

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 109

8. Meta-Decision Making: Concepts and Paradigm

   • Zhongtuo Wang

   Note Pages: 111 - 115

9. Announcement: World Congress on Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, September 10–13, 2000

   Announcement Pages: 117 - 118