China and the Global Economy

LU AIGUO is Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. From 1994 to 1998 she was Research Fellow at UNU/Wider, Helsinki.

• List of Tables Foreword List of Acronyms and Glossary Introduction: A Framework for Analysis PART I: WESTERNIZATION (1840-1949) The Westernization Movement Foreign Trade The Dual Structure of the Economy Falling Behind: The Lessons PART II: DELINKING AND SELF-RELIANCE (1949-78) The Formation of a Strategy for Catching Up Industrialization Trade and Trade Performance Outcome: A Mixed Package PART III: REINTEGRATION (1978 AND BEYOND) A Different Game Economic Restructuring The State The Overseas Chinese Capitalist Diaspora Catching Up? CONCLUSION Bibliography Index

'...The author masterfully tells the story of China's long-term efforts to catch up with the West...Highly recommended for general readers and lower-division undergraduate through professional collections.' - C.A. Haulman, Choice