Research Catalog

Title

Chinese economic reform : the impact on security / edited by Gerald Segal and Richard H. Yang.

Author

Segal, Gerald, 1953-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Yang, Richard H.

Description

ix, 215 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• As a result of intensive economic reform and open door policies in the past fifteen years, China has become a major player in the global economy. This economic prosperity has brought great changes to the country, and in particular to the military, who, with new resources available, have redefined China's internal and external security policies.
• Chinese Economic Reform reaches beyond the economic success of recent years to focus specifically on the pivotal role of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and points towards its vigorous economic participation as a means of consolidating power. The contributors address a wide range of topics, including the PLA's business activities, military industry and conversion, and arms sales.
• These studies highlight the way in which the military now acts as a business in this new environment, with its own form of insider dealing and large scale corruption. Inevitably, these changes have affected China's relationship with the rest of the world; this volume carefully evaluates the effects of rapid economic growth on China's policies towards defence up to the end of the twentieth century.

Subjects

• China > Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun
• Military readiness > Economic aspects > China
• Defense industries > China
• China > Economic policy > 1976-2000
• National security > China
• China > Foreign relations > 1976-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Gerald Segal and Richard H. Yang -- 2. The PLA and the economy: the effects of involvement / Ellis Joffe -- 3. Corruption in the PLA / David S. G. Goodman -- 4. 'PLA incorporated': estimating China's military expenditure / Paul H. B. Godwin -- 5. Economic reform and defence industries in China / Arthur S. Ding -- 6. China's arms sales / Francois Godement -- 7. Defence modernization and Sino-American relations / Michael Yahuda -- 8. China and East Asia / Masashi Nishihara -- 9. Chinese economic reform: the impact on policy in the South China Sea / Michael Leifer -- 10. Arms races and threats across the Taiwan Strait / Michael D. Swaine -- 11. Tying China in (and down) / Gerald Segal.

ISBN

0415130077

LCCN

95024664

OCLC

ocm32859877

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries