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9780415604055

China as the Workshop of the World: An Analysis at the National and Industrial Level of China in the International Division of Labor

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415604055

  • ISBN10:

    0415604052

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-09-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Is China becoming the "workshop of the world" in the same way as Britain and the United States have been previously; or is China, as some multinational companies believe, no more than a processing segment in global production networks? Based on extensive original research, this book examines the structure of production in global manufacturing industries, analysing each segment of the value chain, applying both qualitative and quantitative methods, and exploring in depth several specific industrial sectors. It concludes that China has become deeply integrated into global manufacturing industry; that China's position in the value chain is still quite low, with relatively low research and development and other similar high value activities; but that in some sectors China is catching up rapidly, especially in newly emerging sectors.

Author Biography

Yuning Gao is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Winton Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. xi
List of tablesp. xv
Acknowledgmentsp. xxi
List of abbreviationsp. xxiii
Background, theoretical framework, and literature reviewp. 1
Scale and scope of the "world workshop": China's place in world productionp. 21
Pattern and sophistication of the "world workshop": China in the world marketp. 59
The competitiveness of the "world workshop": China's place on the service part of global value chainp. 96
Comparative study of three of China's industries in the international manufacturing divisionp. 133
Conclusionsp. 197
The broad economic categoriesp. 202
The International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 3p. 203
The Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3p. 206
Referencesp. 209
Indexp. 221
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