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Book SynopsisCong Cao presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of how China’s policy toward research and commercialization of genetically modified crops has evolved that explains how China’s changing GMO stances reflect its shifting position on the world stage.
Trade ReviewCong 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
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 book
GMO China is refreshing and enlightening. * H-Asia *
Cao presents a comprehensive account of the policy maneuvering, narratives, actors's strategies, negotiations, and brokerage that shaped this new high-tech policy field. * China Journal *
The author offers gripping, vivid analyses not only of transgenic technology which continues to pose new ethical and policy challenges, but also of the unwieldy and tenuous trajectories that these create for all constituents both within and beyond China. * China Review International *
Table of ContentsAbbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Transgenic Technology and GMO Controversies
2. Global GMO Policy
3. Research and Commercialization of GM Crops in China
4. Science, Biosafety, and Regulations
5. Polarization and Politicization of Transgenic Technology
6. The Chinese Media and Changing Policy
7. Patents and China’s Bt Rice
8. China as a GMO Nation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
