Internationalizing China

by Zweig, David

• ISBN13: 9780801487552
• ISBN10: 0801487552
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

China began opening to the outside world in 1978. Based on extensive research, David Zweig's book focuses on transnational contacts in tightly regulated areas such as business and higher education, rural development and investment. The cumulative effect of these contacts, Zweig asserts, has been a profound shift in the institutional structures and normative aims of Beijing.

Zweig surveys the extraordinary changes seen in four sectors of the domestic political economy of contemporary China: the establishment of development zones, rural joint ventures, the struggle over foreign aid, and higher education. Finally, he addresses the crucial question of whether, on balance, internationalization weakens or strengthens state power.

Zweig believes that internationalization, rather than globalization, best describes China's opening. While globalization implies a phenomenon outside government control, internationalization, which combines increased transnational flows and decreased regulatory controls, retains the state as a core part of the analysis. It also recognize

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Tables	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: China's Internationalization in Context	1	(22)
Explaining Internationalization: Channels, Resources, and Fevers	23	(26)
Segmented Deregulation and the Politics of Urban Internationalization	49	(58)
Internationalizing Rural China: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Developmental Communities	107	(54)
Dollars, Scholars, and Fevers: The Political Economy of Educational Internationalization	161	(50)
Controlling the Opening: The Struggle over Overseas Development Assistance	211	(48)
Conclusion: Bringing Down the Barriers	259	(20)
Index	279