China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc The Dynamics of a New Empire

Name: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc The Dynamics of a New Empire
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ISBN: 9780679777564

ISBN-10: 0679777563

ISBN-13: 9780679777564

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Authors: Willem Van Kemenade, Diane Webb

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On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has escalated at a rocket's pace. A few years later, the same pattern began between China and Taiwan. The combination of Hong Kong/Taiwan management, financial and export know-how with China's inexhaustible pool of cheap labor and land has enabled China in one decade to leap from an impoverished revolutionary state to a major international…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 476
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface



Anatomy of the Three Systems



China: From Maoist Stalinism to "Market Socialism"



Hong Kong: From British Crown Colony to Special Administrative Region of China



Taiwan: From "Republic of China" to De Facto Island State



Integration of the Three Systems, the Creation of New Hong Kongs, and the Erosion of Communism



Origin of the Formula "One Country-Two Systems"



The Special Economic Zones and the Reopening of the Old "Treaty Ports"



Shenzhen and "Greater Hong Kong"



Hainan: China's "New Hong Kong Plus Taiwan"



Xiamen: Taiwan's Great Leap to the Mainland



Economic Hypergrowth Versus Political Stagnation



Political Reforms, 1981-86: Labyrinth Without Exit



Bourgeois Liberalization and a Neoauthoritarian Alternative



Tiananmen: Requiem for the Democratic Forces



Regionalism Versus Centralism, Interdependence, and Transnationalism



The Central-Regional Swing of the Pendulum in Historical Perspective



Guangdong: The Fifth Tiger Within China's "Cage"?



Shanghai: Bastion of Central Control



Northeast China and the Greater Northeast Asian Economic Sphere



Xinjiang and the Islamic World



The Search for a New System



The Dawn of the Post-Deng Era



The Three Neo's: Neonationalism, Neo-Confucianism, Neoauthoritarianism



Democracy with Chinese Characteristics?


Afterword to the Vintage Edition


Note on the Spelling of Chinese Names


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index