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China and the open door policy
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ISBN: 0043701884 Year: 1989 Publisher: Sydney Allen and Unwin


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China trade: prospects and perspectives
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ISBN: 0030566878 Year: 1982 Publisher: New York Praeger


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China's "opening" to the outside world: the experiment with foreign capitalism
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ISBN: 0813380898 Year: 1990 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. Westview


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Chinese industrial espionage : technology acquisition and military modernization
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ISBN: 9780415821421 9780415821414 9780203630174 9781135952617 9781135952686 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of Chinaʹs efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare Chinaʹs efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated an elaborate system to spot foreign technologies, acquire them by all conceivable means, and convert them into weapons and competitive goods -- without compensating the owners. The director of the US National Security Agency recently called it "the greatest transfer of wealth in history." Written by two of America's leading government analysts and an expert on Chinese cyber networks, this book describes these transfer processes comprehensively and in detail, providing the breadth and depth missing in other works. Drawing upon previously unexploited Chinese language sources, the authors begin by placing the new research within historical context, before examining the Peopleʹs Republic of Chinaʹs policy support for economic espionage, clandestine technology transfers, theft through cyberspace and its impact on the future of the US. -- Publisher description.

From Mao to market
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ISBN: 1107131987 0521100151 1280433833 051118011X 0511204191 0511307004 0511510438 0511072562 0511064101 9780511064104 9780511072567 9780511510434 9780521809603 0521809606 9786610433834 6610433836 0521809606 9780521100151 9781107131989 9781280433832 9780511204197 9780511307003 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Andrew Wedemen argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because the central government failed to prevent local governments from forcing prices to market levels. Having partially decontrolled the economy in the early 1980s, economic reformers baulked at price reform, opting instead for a hybrid system wherein commodities had two prices, one fixed and one floating. Depressed fixed prices led to 'resource wars', as localities battled each other for control over undervalued commodities while inflated consumer goods prices fuelled a headlong investment boom that saturated markets and led to the erection of import barriers. Although local rent seeking and protectionism appeared to carve up the economy, in reality they had not only pushed prices to market levels and cleared the way for sweeping reforms in the 1980s, they had also pushed China past the 'pitfalls' of reform that entrapped other socialist economies.

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