Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 China as a Latecomer in World Industrial Markets
- 2 The Outside World as an Impetus for Change in China
- 3 Tailor to the World: China's Emergence as a Global Power in Textiles
- 4 Beating the System with Industrial Restructuring: China's Response to the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA)
- 5 China Looms Large: Reform and Rationalization in the Textile Industry
- 6 Industrial Change in the Shadow of the MFA: The Role of Top-Level Strategy, Mid-Level Intervention, and Low-Level Demand in China's Textile Industry
- 7 Chinese Shipbuilding: The Modest Origins of an Emerging Industrial Giant
- 8 Dangerous Currents: Navigating Boom and Bust Cycles in International Shipbuilding
- 9 Chinese Shipbuilding and Global Surplus Capacity: Making a Virtue out of Necessity
- 10 Market-Oriented Solutions for Industrial Adjustment: The Changing Pattern of State Intervention in Chinese Shipbuilding
- 11 Who Did What to Whom?: Making Sense of the Reform Process in China's Shipbuilding Industry
- 12 External Shocks, State Capacity, and National Responses for Economic Adjustment: Explaining Industrial Change in China
- 13 China in the Contemporary International Political Economy
- Appendix Contours of the Research Effort
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Outside World as an Impetus for Change in China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 China as a Latecomer in World Industrial Markets
- 2 The Outside World as an Impetus for Change in China
- 3 Tailor to the World: China's Emergence as a Global Power in Textiles
- 4 Beating the System with Industrial Restructuring: China's Response to the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA)
- 5 China Looms Large: Reform and Rationalization in the Textile Industry
- 6 Industrial Change in the Shadow of the MFA: The Role of Top-Level Strategy, Mid-Level Intervention, and Low-Level Demand in China's Textile Industry
- 7 Chinese Shipbuilding: The Modest Origins of an Emerging Industrial Giant
- 8 Dangerous Currents: Navigating Boom and Bust Cycles in International Shipbuilding
- 9 Chinese Shipbuilding and Global Surplus Capacity: Making a Virtue out of Necessity
- 10 Market-Oriented Solutions for Industrial Adjustment: The Changing Pattern of State Intervention in Chinese Shipbuilding
- 11 Who Did What to Whom?: Making Sense of the Reform Process in China's Shipbuilding Industry
- 12 External Shocks, State Capacity, and National Responses for Economic Adjustment: Explaining Industrial Change in China
- 13 China in the Contemporary International Political Economy
- Appendix Contours of the Research Effort
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The impact of the outside world must pass through an intellectual medium; and the only question is how strong is its refraction, to what extent it possesses independent vigor and can exert a counterweight…. We can – indeed, must – stress that in the life of peoples external events and conditions exercise a decisive influence upon the internal constitution…. There is a constant collaboration of the inner and outer world.
– Otto HintzeWhen you open the door, some flies inevitably come in.
– attributed to Deng XiaopingThe international system, be it in an economic or politico-military form, is underdetermining. The environment may exert strong pulls but short of actual occupation, some leeway in the response to that environment remains. A country can face up to the competition or it can fail. Frequently more than one way to be successful exists. A purely international system argument relies on functional necessity to explain domestic outcomes; this is unsatisfactory, because functional requisites may not be fulfilled. Some variance in response to external environment is possible. The explanation of choice among the possibilities therefore requires some examination of domestic politics.
– Peter GourevitchAs Chapter 1 suggests, the case studies examined in this book provide substantial evidence that external factors were critical in inducing many of the far-reaching changes that took place in China's textile and shipbuilding industries.
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- China in the World MarketChinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era, pp. 34 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002