China's Opening to the Outside World: The Experiment With Foreign Capitalism

This book is an attempt towards developing an understanding of China's "policy of opening up to the outside." It includes a study that focuses on three important Chinese foreign economic policies: policies that concern foreign investment, international trade, and Special Economic Zones.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. The Ideological Principles of China's Opening Up Policies 3. Opening Up and Local Development in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone 4. Shenzhen's Relations With Tile National Economy 5. The Management of Foreign Trade: Decentralization Adjustment, and Readjustment 6. Tile Opening up in Foreign Trade: Results and New Problems 7. China's New Foreign Investment Policies 8. Foreign Investment Policies and Laws: Some Key Issues 9. Economic Results of Foreign Investment Policy 10. Conclusion

About the Author :
Kleinberg, Robert

Review :
"Kleinberg gives a detailed account of what the Chinese have done to introduce some capitalist activities into the country without abandoning socialism, and he makes a case for expecting this practice to continue without leading to the creation of a liberal system." William Diebold Jr, Foreign Affairs "Robert Kleinberg's China's "Opening" to the Outside World is a splendid and sobering piece of scholarship, combining theory and generalizations with rigorous empirical analyses of foreign trade, foreign investment, and the Special Economic Zones. Kleinberg challenges the widespread (and wishful) conventional wisdom prevalent in the West, particularly in the United States, that post-Mao China's opening up to the capitalist world in inexorably moving the country toward economic and political liberalization. In theory and practice, he argues, the post-Mao leadership has followed neither a classical Marxist, nor a neo-Marxist dependencia, nor a global interdependence model but a neomercantilist, state-centred, and state-empowering model in its foreign economic relations. He argues further that this basic bottom line is most likely to remain unchanged in the years to come. Whether or not one agrees with this, his tightly reasoned and well-documented thesis deserves to be taken very seriously. The book is also highly recommended as an irresistable text for courses in Chinese foreign policy and international relations, as it confidently bridges the gap between the two fields. This is scholarship of a high order and a major challenge to all serious students in search of China's place in the changing global political economy." Samuel Kim, Princeton University