China in the Global Political Economy

Gordon C.K. Cheung, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK

'This is a fascinating book that goes well beyond the conventional academic debates and focuses a great deal on China's political-economic development in the past 10-15 years. It's written in a highly accessible manner and filled with very timely information or evidence from the author's original fieldwork and useful secondary sources. I am particularly impressed by the wide-ranging issues covered in this very readable book, from China's massive industrial transformation and domestic entrepreneurship to more recent phenomena such as innovation, financialization, and globalization. It helps us understand far better China's rise in the new global economy than many highly specialized monographs on China's economic transformation.'--Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Global Production Networks Centre, National University of Singapore'Anyone trying to make sense of China's transformative impact on the global economy needs to read Gordon Cheung's timely and accessible analysis of its rise and growing influence.'--Mark Beeson, The University of Western Australia

• Contents: Preface PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1. China’s economic transformation in a changing world PART II PERSPECTIVES AND DEVELOPMENT 2. From hegemonic decline to regional interdependence: shifting economic paradigm 3. From peaceful rise to soft power: the manufacturing of attractiveness 4. From developmental to entrepreneurial: varieties of political economy PART III NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC FOOTPRINTS 5. Innovation protection and the significance of intellectual property rights 6. Crisis resolution and the global financial competition 7. Global inequality, sovereign wealth funds and China’s ‘go out’ enterprises PART IV CONCLUSION 8. Globalization, resistance and assimilation References Index