China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era

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• China in the World Market *
• Cambridge Modern China Series *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Figures ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Preface xv
• 1 - China as a Latecomer in World Industrial Markets 1
• 2 - The Outside World as an Impetus for Change in China 34
• 3 - Tailor to the World: China's Emergence as a Global Power in Textiles 59
• 4 - Beating the System with Industrial Restructuring: China's Response to the Multifiber Arrangement (mfa) 80
• 5 - China Looms Large: Reform and Rationalization in the Textile Industry 111
• 6 - Industrial Change in the Shadow of the Mfa: the Role of Top-Level Strategy, Mid-Level Intervention, and Low-Level Demand in China's Textile Industry 144
• 7 - Chinese Shipbuilding: the Modest Origins of an Emerging Industrial Giant 163
• 8 - Dangerous Currents: Navigating Boom and Bust Cycles in International Shipbuilding 192
• 9 - Chinese Shipbuilding and Global Surplus Capacity: Making a Virtue Out of Necessity 217

• China in the World Market *
• Cambridge Modern China Series *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Figures ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Preface xv
• 1 - China as a Latecomer in World Industrial Markets 1
• 2 - The Outside World as an Impetus for Change in China 34
• 3 - Tailor to the World: China's Emergence as a Global Power in Textiles 59
• 4 - Beating the System with Industrial Restructuring: China's Response to the Multifiber Arrangement (mfa) 80
• 5 - China Looms Large: Reform and Rationalization in the Textile Industry 111
• 6 - Industrial Change in the Shadow of the Mfa: the Role of Top-Level Strategy, Mid-Level Intervention, and Low-Level Demand in China's Textile Industry 144
• 7 - Chinese Shipbuilding: the Modest Origins of an Emerging Industrial Giant 163
• 8 - Dangerous Currents: Navigating Boom and Bust Cycles in International Shipbuilding 192
• 9 - Chinese Shipbuilding and Global Surplus Capacity: Making a Virtue Out of Necessity 217
• 10 - Market-Oriented Solutions for Industrial Adjustment: the Changing Pattern of State Intervention in Chinese Shipbuilding 238
• 11 - Who Did What to Whom?: Making Sense of the Reform Process in China's Shipbuilding Industry 258
• 12 - External Shocks, State Capacity, and National Responses for Economic Adjustment: Explaining Industrial Change in China 276
• 13 - China in the Contemporary International Political Economy 295
• Appendix: Contours of the Research Effort 316
• Bibliography 322
• Index 332