Book description
This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.
Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, China’s "hybrid" system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the system’s structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors’ interactions with experts worldwide.
This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- PART I: China’s transfer venues
- PART II: The system in operation
- PART III: China’s worldwide transfer networks
- PART IV: Case studies
- PART V: Technology in the shadows
- PART VI: Managing the transfer problem
- Conclusion
- Appendix: glossary of terms
- Index
Product information
- Title: China's Quest for Foreign Technology
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2020
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781000191615
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