Cong Cao is professor of innovation studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of China’s Scientific Elite (2004) and, with Denis Fred Simon, of China’s Emerging Technological Edge: Assessing the Role of High-End Talent (2009).
Based on a decade of fieldwork and interviews, Cong Cao's impressive research offers a fascinating window into the complexity of Chinese policy making on a highly contentious issue. Revealing the difficulty of formulating a consistent, sustainable policy that can reconcile the interests of the multiple actors and stakeholders, it will be of wide interest within Chinese and science and technology studies, as well as to those seeking business opportunities in agricultural biotechnology. -- Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Cong Cao's is the first major study of China's experience with the promotion of and the debate about genetically modified organisms. GMO China is a thoroughly researched and insightful work. -- Erik Baark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology