Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989

Priscilla Roberts has researched on aspects of international transitions of power and the role of elites, as private individuals and through institutions, in the making of foreign policy in the US, Britain, and the British dominions. She has produced 31 single-authored, edited, and co-edited books.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989: The First Decade of Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms. By Priscilla ROBERTS.- Chapter 2. Seven Policies That Opened China to the Outside World, 1979-1990. By Lawrence C. REARDON.- Chapter 3. Deng Plays the ‘China Card’: Deng Xiaoping’s Visit to the United States and its Implication for China’s New Long March to Modernization. By Lu SUN.- Chapter 4. Toward Technological Statecraft: Revisiting Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in the 1980s. By Shu Guang ZHANG and Hua ZHENG.- Chapter 5. The Revival of Management Education in Reform-era China. By Peter E. HAMILTON.- Chapter 6. Deng Xiaoping’s Use of Positive Economic Statecraft: The Importance of Securing Long-term Partnerships with Major International Financial Organizations (IFOs). By Kai Yin Allison HAGA.- Chapter 7. Reimagining the Chinese Economy Through Sino-Japanese Engagement in the 1980s. By Wendy LEUTERT.- Chapter 8. China’s Reform Era Under Deng Xiaoping, 1978-1989:Impacts on China-ASEAN Relations. By K. S. NATHAN.- Chapter 9. Sino-European Relations in the 1980s: Increasing Engagement in the Shadow of the United States. By Laurens HEMMINGA.- Chapter 10. The Bottleneck of Reform: China’s Oil Policy in the 1980s. By Kazushi MINAMI.- Chapter 11. Maoist Soldiers as the Infrastructure of Reform: The People’s Liberation Army Engineering Corps in Shenzhen. By Taomo ZHOU.- Chapter 12. Whose Perestroika? Czechoslovak Communists, Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reforms, and Late 1980s Sino-Czechoslovak Relations. By Jan ADAMEC.- Chapter 13. Orchestrating and Mediating New China’s International Reintegration: The U.S. Think Tank China Cluster in the 1980s. By Priscilla ROBERTS.- Chapter 14. The Reform Era Foreign Policy Narrative: 1978 Onward. By Kerry BROWN.