Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski, editors
China’s Great Economic Transformation
Cambridge University Press, 2008
This study is a comprehensive attempt at understanding and analyzing China’s economic boom of the past three decades. China’s Great Economic Transformation combines deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China’s economic achievements and rapid growth, as well as weaknesses across many institutions and sectors, including fiscal, legal and financial. The book explains how China’s political system, sectoral developments, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an unprecedented period of growth, and what further developments may be expected in coming decades. Dr. Rawski is a professor of economics and history and a research professor in the University Center of International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Contributors to China’s Great Economic Transformation include National Committee members John Giles, Nicholas Lardy, Barry Naughton, Dwight Perkins, Scott Rozelle, Susan Whiting and Christine P.W. Wong.
Morris Goldstein and Nicholas Lardy, editors
Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy
Peterson Institute of International Economics, 2008
Debating China’s Exchange Rate Policy is based on a 2007 conference of the Peterson Institute for International Economics that included Western and Chinese experts. It assesses the exchange rate policy in China and identifies major policy options going forward. Specific proposals address means of eliminating misalignment of the renminbi, how best to reduce pressures from the sterilization of large reserve accumulation, how to address capital flows, and what institutional and policy measures to put in place to benefit from management of China’s foreign exchange reserves. Dr. Lardy is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Scott Kennedy
The Business of Lobbying in China
Harvard University Press, 2005
“Business-related lobbying, both domestic and foreign, is an important part of the political, legislative, and administrative process in China, and Scott Kennedy's fresh analysis is the best guide I have seen on the subject.”
--Jerome A. Cohen, New York University School of Law
Samuel Y. Kupper
Dr. China Speaks: Being Successful in China
Outskirts Press, 2008
Dr. China Speaks is a primer for business professionals on the history, business practices and social customs of China distilled from Dr. Kupper’s more than four decades of experience in Asia. Since his first trip to Taiwan in 1963, Dr. Kupper, an associate professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, has traveled throughout Asia, lectured extensively on China and consults on trade and investments in China. The book interprets ways that Chinese culture influences business practices, and addresses often misunderstood challenges of doing business in China.
Kenneth G. Lieberthal
Managing the China Challenge: How to Achieve Corporate Success in the People's Republic
Brookings Institution Press, 2011
How can companies successfully do business in China? What factors weigh into this success, and what will China's future mean for international business? Multinational corporations now look toward China with both trepidation and anticipation. The speed and scope of Chinese economic growth is changing the global distribution of power and resources, possibly to the detriment of the major industrial powers. But this same transformation presents tremendous opportunities for companies who understand China well enough to leverage both its accomplishments and its deep-seated problems for corporate benefit. Longtime China scholar Kenneth Lieberthal brings to bear a unique combination of experiences as former top government official, political scientist, professor of international corporate strategy, and consultant. In Managing the China Challenge, he draws on his deep understanding of China’s political and economic systems and the priorities of local and national leaders to illuminate the strategies foreign companies must master to succeed in the Middle Kingdom.
Sheila Melvin
The Little Red Book of China Business
Sourcebooks, 2007
Sheila Melvin provide a unique and lively approach to understanding the Chinese business culture by focusing on the influence of Mao's "Little Red Book" on business in China today.
William Rhodes
Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance
McGraw-Hill, 2011
In more than five decades with Citi, William "Bill" Rhodes, the firm's former senior vice chairman and senior international officer, has worked with senior business leaders, statesmen, and strongmen and brokered immense financial deals while looking across the table at finance ministers. He has earned the cooperation of Fidel Castro over cigars and the admiration of Rupert Murdoch, who said of Rhodes, "By dogged hard work, Bill forms important and great relationships. Everyone knows Bill. Everyone trusts Bill." From these and other experiences, Rhodes has learned a lifetime of lessons about managing amid crises—and, more important, how to lead prudently, decisively, and effectively to prevent crises from ever happening in the first place. In Banker to the World, Rhodes presents his collected wisdom, best-practices, analysis, and anecdotes in one essential volume on the creation of value through leadership—and on the importance of leading by one's values.
Dan Rosen and Nick Lardy
Prospects for a U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
Institute for International Economics, 2004
The authors look at both the quantitative and qualitative evidence on the potential effects of a US-Taiwan free trade agreement (FTA), both for maximizing US economic benefits and for securing a prosperous and secure future for Taiwan. Their analysis indicates that the direct economic benefits of a prospective FTA would be modest and that an FTA could be most valuable to the United States if it leads Taiwan toward greater regional integration.
Dan Rosen, Scott Rozelle, and Jikun Huang
Roots of Competitiveness: China’s Evolving Agriculture Interests
Institute for International Economics, 2004
“China’s trade interests are changing as its farmers become more competitive, and this transformation will have major implications for world trade talks and global economic welfare. This study traces the steps China has taken to make agriculture a winning sector, the evidence that its initiatives are working, and the course the country is likely to take.”
Edward S. Steinfeld
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
Oxford University Press, 2010
Playing Our Game explores the monumental economic and political ramifications of China’s integration into global production. By examining how contemporary Chinese enterprises actually engage the global economy and participate in a global division of labor, the book challenges the idea that Chinese firms are rising at their Western counterparts’ expense. It also challenges the notion that on China’s domestic scene, political change has lagged behind economic transformation. The book argues instead that the Chinese growth story is fundamentally about China’s internalization of the rules and practices of advanced industrial nations. China has grown not by conjuring up its own unique political-economic institutions, Steinfeld argues, but instead by increasingly harmonizing with our own. The results within China – on not just the economic front, but also the political – have been nothing short of revolutionary.
Kellee S. Tsai
Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China
Cornell University Press, 2007
"In Capitalism without Democracy, Kellee S. Tsai argues that China's entrepreneurs are unlikely by themselves to push for democratic change. In this very well-written and richly detailed book, Tsai offers a convincing critique of the common perception that privatization is leading to democratization in China. It should be widely read in the academic and policy communities"
-Bruce J. Dickson, George Washington University