The China Paradox At the Front Line of Economic Transformation 2nd edition by Paul Clifford ISBN 9783110724264 311072426X

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ISBN 10: 311072426X
ISBN 13: 9783110724264
Author:  Paul G. Clifford

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 The Hybrid Development Model at the Heart of a Vibrant New China

Chapter 2 Early Attempts at Industrialization: The Empire and the Republic

Chapter 3 The First Decades of the People’s Republic: The Soviet Model … and Worse

• The Fate of China’s Capitalists: From Ally to Enemy
• The Dysfunctional Soviet Model Is Embraced
• And Worse … Beyond the Soviet Model
• The Brutal Assault on Intellectuals and Science
• The Dead End of the Mao Years

Chapter 4 Wrongs are Righted, the Reforms Take Shape

• Interview with a “Counter-Revolutionary Element”
• Setting the Boundaries of Change
• The Initial Reforms – Limited and Tentative
• A Brave Factory Outguns the Central Government
• The Reforms Go into High Gear
• The Reforms Lose Steam (2002 Onward)
• China’s Economic Planning Today

Chapter 5 What to Do with the State-Owned Enterprises?

• Weaning the SOEs Off the State (1978–93)
• Central Planning Fades Away
• Addressing Ownership and Governance (1993–2003)
• Selling Off the “Dogs”
• Transforming the Large SOEs
• Management Consulting to the Rescue
• Diagnosing the Problems
• What Do We Want to Be?
• Good Company, Bad Company
• Who Actually Owns Us?
• Can SOE Culture Be Changed?
• SOE Reform Falters (2003 Onward)
• A New Type of SOE Shows the Way Forward

Chapter 6 The Private Economy Emerges Unannounced

• TVEs – Engine for Growth as the Reforms Took Shape
• POEs Flourish, Especially If Far from the Capital
• Wanxiang – A Pioneering Private Company Forges Its Own Path
• Alibaba – The Consequences of Not Showing Servility to the Party
• Just Twenty-Two Years of Stunning Growth
• How Things Have Unraveled
• A Fateful Conference
• Private Firms Sustain the Economy But Must Remain Acquiescent

Chapter 7 Huawei: A Private Company Becomes a National Champion

• History of China’s ICT Industry
• Huawei’s Origins
• 1998–1999: A Pivotal Year for Huawei
• Huawei 20 Years Later – Its Scale and Scope
• Punching Bag of the Trump Administration
• Where Does Huawei’s Funding Come From?
• Who Owns and Controls Huawei?
• How Does Huawei Compete and Does It Innovate?

Chapter 8 Magnet for Foreign Investment

• Why Did China Welcome FDI?
• Why Has China Been So Attractive to Foreign Investors?
• China Has Its Cake and Gets to Eat It, Too
• Win-Win in the Auto Industry
• The Starting Point
• Volkswagen: An Early Entrant Pays Its Dues
• The Foreign Component Suppliers Arrive
• General Motors Benefits from a Late Entry
• Local Auto Firms Fail to Impress
• The Greening of China’s Auto Industry
• Why Did China Neglect Logistics and Resist Its “Opening Up” to FDI?
• The Woeful State of China’s Logistics
• The Motorola Breakthrough
• The Curious Case of Casinos in China
• Satisfying Consumer Demand
• Why FDI Will Stick with China

Chapter 9 Business Models at the Heart of China’s Emergence

• Model 1. Learn and Catch Up
• Disappointment in Auto and Semiconductor
• The Model Works Well – In Consumer Products, High-Speed Rail, and Nuclear Power
• Model 2. Picking Off Underperforming Overseas Assets
• Obstacles to China ODI
• How Lenovo Mastered the Art of Turning Around a Troubled US Business
• Successful Overseas Auto Industry Acquisitions
• Model 3. “China, Inc.” in Emerging Markets
• The Government/CCP
• Financial Institutions
• Chinese Firms
• A Little-Known Firm from Anhui Grows and then Falters in Africa
• Transportation, Mines, and Downstream Industry
• Model 4. Novel Product or Technology Breakthrough
• Implications for the Emergence of Chinese Firms on the Global Stage

Chapter 10 China’s Friction with the World

• A Glance Back at the Emergence of Globalization
• How Does China Position Itself Today?
• A More Assertive China Draws Attention to its “Rise”
• Human Rights Abuses
• Is the BRI a Neo-Colonial Program?
• Does China Want to Export Its Development Model?
• Have We Been Fooled by China or Are We Kidding Ourselves?
• Racism Rears Its Head
• Trade War Breaks Out
• A Drift Toward Technology War?

Chapter 11 What Could Disrupt or Sustain the China Paradox?

• Peace, Stability and the CCP
• The CCP Has Survived and Adapted
• How Well Is the CCP Functioning Today?
• The CCP Is Embedded in Businesses
• China’s Fault Lines, Tensions, and Crimes Against Humanity
• The CCP and China’s Future
• Will Xi Serve Beyond His Second Term?
• Xi Jinping’s Cult of Personality: Ecology and Yucun Village in Zhejiang
• The Rule of Law or Rule by Law?
• Culture, Education, and Civil Society
• A Cocktail of Confucianism and Leninism
• Anything Goes, as the Market Latches onto New-Found Freedoms
• Corruption, Moral Turpitude, and Social Alienation
• Education Falls Short
• Business Education Flourishes
• Economic and Financial Stability
• Confronting the Environmental Crisis
• The Mega Domestic Market
• Gleaming New Ground Transportation Infrastructure
• Government-Sponsored Research and Development
• The Mobile Handset Example
• R&D Results Were Patchy but Outlook Is More Positive
• Connecting with the Consumer
• Prospects of Deepening Economic Reform

Chapter 12 Conclusions

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