This Special Emerging Asia Edition ofThe Letter – Asia Pacific marks just one of a number of times Institutional Real Estate, Inc has published an issue dedicated to emerging Asia since The Letter – Asia Pacific launched in January 2009, but the publication routinely features news and articles on the region, and certainly on China. (How could it not? Four years ago, China officially took over as the second-largest economy in the world.)

And what about that pesky thing called a global financial crisis? Hope for global economic salvation of sorts turned toward Asia, given that the region’s GDP growth projections remained fairly unscathed at the time, and all while China’s mega-growth engine continued to churn.

In the years since