%0 Generic %D 2000 %T China into the World Economic System %A Cooper, Richard N. %X

China in 1978 embarked on a major economic transformation, seeking to alter the stance of the previous 30 years and engage economically with the rest of the world in several dimensions—trade, foreign direct investment by private firms, external borrowing by government from both private and public sources, education. Each of these represented a major change in policy. The transformation in the intervening 22 years has been dramatic and palpable, as can be seen in the sky–lines of the major cities.

Published in Journal of East Asian Studies 1, no. 1 (February 2001).

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