Fortifying China : : The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy /

Fortifying China : : The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy / / Tai Ming Cheung.

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Fortifying China explores the titanic struggle to turn China into an aspiring world-class military technological power. The defense economy is leveraging the country's vibrant civilian economy and gaining access to foreign sources of technology and know-how. Drawing on extensive Chinese-languag...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Cheung, Tai Ming,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 18 tables, 6 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Bridging the Civil-Military Technological Divide in the Information Age
  • 2. Innovation and Stagnation during the Maoist Era
  • 3. The Eclipse of the Defense Economy under Deng Xiaoping
  • 4. The Revival of the Defense Economy in the Twenty-first Century
  • 5. Building a Dual-Use Economy
  • 6. Can the Chinese Defense Economy Catch Up?
  • Chinese Terms
  • Historical Official Exchange Rates between the Renminbi and U.S. Dollar, 1955-2008
  • Select Chinese-Language Bibliography
  • Index

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