book excerpts

China's Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath (Book Excerpt)

What Did China Do Right?

Aug 7 •

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State (book excerpt)

Yingyao Wang opens the black box of the Chinese bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic…

Jul 28 •

China's Rising Foreign Ministry (Book Excerpt)

Dylan M.H. Loh assesses Chinese foreign policy in Southeast Asia from 2009 to 2020 and catalogs “assertive” and “cooperative” behavior.

Jul 25 •

Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (book excerpt)

Shuchen Xiang's provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference

Jul 8 •

China's Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (book excerpt)

Pascale Massot's new book finds China behaves as much in an unplanned as a structured way and provides an alternative lens through which to think about…

Jun 22 •

The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance (Book Excerpt)

PKU's Muyang Chen argues in her book that China’s rise yields more than a rivalry, and its impact varies by issue area.

Jun 12 •

China's Education Aid to Africa: Fragmented Soft Power (Book Excerpt)

Dr. Wei YE finds a much more complicated picture than just the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context.

Jun 7 •

The View from China: Perspectives on the West in the Xi Jinping Era

Professor Jing Men delves into the perspectives of Chinese scholars, experts, and policy advisors concerning China’s interactions with the Western…

May 10 •

Colin Hawes on The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem

"Often surface appearances, such as CCP control over corporations, turn out to be deceptive when we examine how corporations like Huawei actually behave…

Apr 4 •

Lan Xiaohuan on China's Local Government Competition and Overcapacity

The Fudan University professor's How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, translated from his 2021 Chinese domestic…

Mar 30 •

Yao Yang on Chinese Economists‘ Contributions to Economics

The senior economist says the contributions are relatively small, but the Chinese have now achieved lift-off and can summarize theories of general…

Dec 27, 2023 •

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Yao Yang: The Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Economics

Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University looks at how Chinese economics evolved from the planned economy era.

Dec 26, 2023 •

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