Description
Book SynopsisSo, and Lu Zhang.
Trade ReviewThis volume is a significant, timely contribution to the discussion of China's role in the world economy... Not only a must read for those studying the Chinese economy, this book will likely be welcomed and debated by observers of capitalist development on the world stage. Essential. Choice 2010 This volume is a rare and important contribution to understanding China's rise in the context of global capitalism. Despite the questions raised, this reviewer enjoyed reading all the chapters and learned much from each author who contributed to this excellent collection. The volume is a must read for anyone who is intrigued by China's past and its contemporary role in the global system. -- Lu Zheng Contemporary Sociology 2010 Ho-fung Hung... provides an excellent short background on the start of China's economic miracle, and then evolves into providing an eye-opening view of the current status of important Chinese clothes and shoe manufacturers. -- Loyd E. Eskildson Basil and Spice 2010
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Three Transformations of Global Capitalism
Chapter 2. China's Market Economy in the Long Run
Chapter 3. Rethinking the Chinese Developmental Miracle
Chapter 4. Big Suppliers in Greater China: A Growing Counterweight to the Power of Giant Retailers
Chapter 5. The "Rise of China" and the Changing World Income Distribution
Chapter 6. China's Economic Ascent and Japan's Raw-Materials Peripheries
Chapter 7. Sino-Russian Geoeconomic Integration: An Alternative to Chinese Hegemony on a Shrinking Planet
Chapter 8. China and the U.S. Labor Movement
Chapter 9. China as an Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest
Chapter 10. A Caveat: Is the Rise of China Sustainable?
List of Contributors
Index
