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Pax Sinica : geopolitics and economics of China's ascendance / Y.Y. Kueh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kueh, Y. Y.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health status indicators--China.
- Health status indicators.
- Environmental indicators--China.
- Environmental indicators.
- Science indicators--China.
- Science indicators.
- Technology indicators--China.
- Technology indicators.
- China--Economic conditions--2000-.
- China.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (461 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book confronts the popular conjecture of a Pax Sinica emerging to replace Pax Americana in the wake of global financial crisis. It argues that by virtue of its overwhelming economic, technological and military clout, US hegemony will continue to prevail, though increasingly less coherently, as China's ascendance as a global power accelerates. The argument is underpinned with analysis of different junctures in China's trajectory towards the status of economic giant, from the tacit creation of the ""Greater China"" growth triangle and ordeal of the Asian Financial Crisis, through the breakth
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Glossaries; 1: Introduction Economic Imperatives versus Geopolitics; 2: The Emergence of the Greater China Economic Circle; 3: Hong Kong Surviving the Open-Door, Reforming Chinese Economy; 4: Guangdong Province Ascending as the "Fifth Dragon"; 5: The US Connection of Hong Kongin China's "One Country, Two Economies" System*; 6: Hong Kong Weathering the Asian Financial Storm*; 7:The Greater China Growth Triangle in the Asian Financial Crisis; 8: Financial Restructuring for Economic Recovery in China and the Hong Kong SAR
- 9: The "China Factor" vs. the "US Dollar Peg" in the Success Story of Hong Kong10: China and the Prospects for Economic Integration within APEC; 11: China's New Industries and Regional Economic Realignment in the Asia Pacific; 12: China's WTO Accession, ASEAN10+1, and ECFA "Open Regionalism" at Work; 13: Conclusion Pax Sinica Looming on the Asia-Pacific Horizon; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 988-8180-15-0
- 1-283-87011-8
- 988-220-877-0
- OCLC:
- 818851614
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