Playing our game : why China's rise doesn't threaten the west / Edward S. Steinfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinfeld, Edward S. (Edward Saul), 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Foreign economic relations--United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations--China.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth is fortifying American commercial supremacy, because (as the title says) China is playing our game. By seeking to realize its dream of modernization by integrating itself into the W

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: The Quiet Revolution; TWO: Toward a New Framework: Institutional Outsourcing; THREE: The Quest for Modernity; FOUR: Taking Industry Global: China as Rising Industrial Powerhouse Versus China as Capitalist Enabler; FIVE: Capitalist Enabler, Capitalist Converger; SIX: Playing to Win? China's Advance into High-Tech Research and Development; SEVEN: Energy: The Last Bastion for State Control?; EIGHT: Self-Obsolescing Authoritarianism; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-975285-0

1-282-63927-7

9786612639272

0-19-975073-4

OCLC:

645939978