Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry

Yu Zhou is associate professor in the Department of Earth Science and Geography at Vassar College.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Making Silicon Valley in China: ZhongguancunChapter 2: From Offspring to Rebel: The Birth of ZGC and the Transformation of China's Science and Technology Establishments, 1950s–1980sChapter 3: Foreign "Wolf" and Local "Lamb": Multinational Companies and Resurgence of ZGC in the 1990sChapter 4: The Internet and the Restructuring of ZGC, 1998–2003Chapter 5: The Anatomy of ZGC: The Domestic CompaniesChapter 6: The Dynamics of Internationalization in ZGCChapter 7: Grassroots Transnationals: Returnee EntrepreneursChapter 8: China's Technical Standard Strategies: Toward an Alternative PathConclusionReferences

The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry is a richly illuminating piece of scholarship that offers an interesting new perspective on the development of Beijing’s Zhongguancun high-technology district and the implications of Zhongguancun’s path for China’s future technological and economic development. . . . Zhou impressively captures much of the policy, structural and even geographic change that has occurred in Zhongguancun over the past three decades. . . . Valuable and impressive.