This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989. During these years, Chinese economic engagement with the external world was tentative and experimental, with long-term strategies still decidedly under development.
Prominent topics covered are China’s efforts to steer an economic course tailored to and representing what Deng Xiaoping famously described as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”; China’s quest for advanced science and technology; China’s dealings with international economic institutions, especially the World Bank; China’s engagement with other powers, including Japan, the United States, the ASEAN nations, and Europe; and the role of non-governmental organizations, including foreign policy think tanks, exchange groups, and educational institutions, in developing Chinese economic thinking and methodology during this decade.
Contributors also focus on how elements of the Chinese military turned to building China’s new economic infrastructure, and on Chinese efforts to break into foreign markets. The volume ends with an overview and reassessment of earlier findings on Chinese economic statecraft in these years, by one of the leading Chinese experts on the PRC’s international policy.
Edited by:
Priscilla Roberts
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2022
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 628g
ISBN: 9789811692192
ISBN 10: 981169219X
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 12 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1. Introduction: Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989: The First Decade of Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms. By Priscilla ROBERTS.- Chapter 2. Seven Policies That Opened China to the Outside World, 1979-1990. By Lawrence C. REARDON.- Chapter 3. Deng Plays the ‘China Card’: Deng Xiaoping’s Visit to the United States and its Implication for China’s New Long March to Modernization. By Lu SUN.- Chapter 4. Toward Technological Statecraft: Revisiting Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in the 1980s. By Shu Guang ZHANG and Hua ZHENG.- Chapter 5. The Revival of Management Education in Reform-era China. By Peter E. HAMILTON.- Chapter 6. Deng Xiaoping’s Use of Positive Economic Statecraft: The Importance of Securing Long-term Partnerships with Major International Financial Organizations (IFOs). By Kai Yin Allison HAGA.- Chapter 7. Reimagining the Chinese Economy Through Sino-Japanese Engagement in the 1980s. By Wendy LEUTERT.- Chapter 8. China’s Reform Era Under Deng Xiaoping, 1978-1989: Impacts on China-ASEAN Relations. By K. S. NATHAN.- Chapter 9. Sino-European Relations in the 1980s: Increasing Engagement in the Shadow of the United States. By Laurens HEMMINGA.- Chapter 10. The Bottleneck of Reform: China’s Oil Policy in the 1980s. By Kazushi MINAMI.- Chapter 11. Maoist Soldiers as the Infrastructure of Reform: The People’s Liberation Army Engineering Corps in Shenzhen. By Taomo ZHOU.- Chapter 12. Whose Perestroika? Czechoslovak Communists, Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reforms, and Late 1980s Sino-Czechoslovak Relations. By Jan ADAMEC.- Chapter 13. Orchestrating and Mediating New China’s International Reintegration: The U.S. Think Tank China Cluster in the 1980s. By Priscilla ROBERTS.- Chapter 14. The Reform Era Foreign Policy Narrative: 1978 Onward. By Kerry BROWN.
Priscilla Roberts has researched on aspects of international transitions of power and the role of elites, as private individuals and through institutions, in the making of foreign policy in the US, Britain, and the British dominions. She has produced 31 single-authored, edited, and co-edited books.
