Made in China : Voices of the New Economic Revolution

by Kuhn, Robert Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781575001340
• ISBN10: 1575001349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The world's largest country with over 1.2 billion inhabitants, China's economy is undergoing the fastest change in history. To understand the transformation, author and business consultant Robert Lawrence Kuhn has devoted the past ten years of his life to interviewing new Chinese entrepreneurs, private business leaders, government officials, and the heads of state-owned factories, as well as everyday workers and families, capturing China in change as no other chronicler has.

American and Chinese trade officials recently concluded thirteen years of negotiations by signing one of the largest trade deals in American history. This comprehensive agreement to open China's economy to foreign competitors in return for Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization makes this new investigation of China's business practices more timely than ever.

In Made in China, Kuhn takes readers into the state of China's economy at the dawn of a new century, featuring insider information from China's first major bankruptcy -- the Ah Cheng Sugar Factor in Manchuria -- to the la

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(6)
Pride and Stability	13	(14)
Chinese Pride
Zhao Qizheng: ``It Involves the Pride of the Nation''
Changes In China
The Cultural Revolution
China's Stability
Civilization and History	27	(12)
Chinese Civilization
The Legacy of Foreign Oppression
The Communist ``Restoration''
Mao and Deng
Economic History
Reform and Restructure	39	(52)
The Beginnings of Reform
Stages of Reform
Problems of Reform
A Matter of Attitudes
The ``Socialist Market Economy''
Li Yining: ``All Three Criticism Were Proved Wrong''
Reform and Restructure
The Reform of State-Owned Enterprises
Yi Li Ice Cream Company: ``Army of the New Economy''
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
Wang Hai: Double Star's ``Sole Survivor''
Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl
Shao Ning: ``Competition Creates Losers''
The Acheng Bankruptcy: ``A Losing Proposition''
Foreign Enterprises
Society and Its Problems	91	(44)
The New Social Contract
Human Rights
What Chinese Leaders May Believe
Corruption
He Qinglian: ``In China, Power Went to the Market''
Internal Migration
Migrant Workers: Moving, But Not Always Up
Underground Church
Yan Mingfu: ``The Whole of Society Can Be Involved''
China Charity Federation
Chinese Characteristics	135	(38)
From Politics to Economics
Political Structure
Slogans
Yang Mianmian: ``Never Say No to the Market''
Class
Yang Millionaire: Shanghai's ``King of Stocks''
Women
Rural Women: Shifting Paradigms
Guanxi
The Chinese Way
Zeng Jinsong: ``We're Learning Fast''
Odyssey and Media	173	(36)
Finding China
Ping-Pong Entrepreneur
Adam Zhu: Son of the Revolution
Eating Tofu
Beijing Conference: Media in the United States
Thomas E. Patterson: Communication In and With China
Coproduction
Who Could Have Thought It?
Science and Technology	209	(32)
Song Jian: ``Revitalizing the Country by Science and Education''
The Internet
Fanso: An Internet Startup, Socialist-Market Style
Cui Xinshui: ``Launching Satellites Most Efficiently''
Liu Chuanzhi: ``Turning Our Technologies into Merchandise''
Legend Employees: ``If the World Didn't Have Imagination, What Would the World Be Like?''
Outlook and Prospects	241	(30)
The Future of Communism
Personal Development
Policies and Politics
Jiang Zemin
Zhu Rongji
Hu Jintao
Americans and Misunderstandings
Zhao Qizheng: ``Tremendous Changes''
Looking Forward I: Personal Predictions
Looking Forward II: Chinese Voices
Appendix: China Today	271	(30)
China's Little Emperors
China Faces An Aging Society
Life Begins at Sixty
Chinese Democracy: Progress Finally
We Will Have More Freedom in the New Century
Literature Should Not Preach
Lawyers: Stepping into the Lives of Ordinary People
Insurance: Making Its Way Into Everyday Life
Reflections on Divorce
In Love of Abandoned Pets
China's National Minorities
The Kingdom of Women
What's So Special About Dragons?
Stories of Jade
Experimental Art in Shanghai
Index	301	(18)
About the Author	319