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Toward Technological Statecraft: Revisiting Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in the 1980s

In: Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989

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  • Shu Guang Zhang

    (University of Saint Joseph)

  • Hua Zheng

    (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Abstract

The book Beijing’s Economic Statecraft during the Cold War (2014) by Shu Guang Zhang treated the years from 1979 to 1989 as a new stage in China’s economic statecraft. With Deng Xiaoping’s vigorous push for Reform and Opening Up, as well as rapprochement with the West, Beijing reoriented its economic exchanges with the Western world. Its Opening Up to Western goods, capital, and technology accorded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) not only unprecedented economic opportunities but invariably strategic potentials that would prove instrumental to its pursuit of foreign policy objectives on the course to becoming a great power. Revisiting earlier findings and exploring new material on this dynamic period of the 1980s, it is both interesting and important to examine specifically how the role of science and technology (S&T) played out in the evolution of China’s economic statecraft toward the end of the twentieth century, thereby to constitute Beijing’s technological statecraft.

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  • Shu Guang Zhang & Hua Zheng, 2022. "Toward Technological Statecraft: Revisiting Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in the 1980s," Springer Books, in: Priscilla Roberts (ed.), Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989, chapter 0, pages 91-126, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-9217-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-9217-8_4
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