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China's Outward Foreign Investment
A Political Perspective
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2010
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This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution in order to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. Merchant-state dualism is a hybrid relationship between the state and society that maintains state control over merchants, while giving them some autonomy. By investigating the interactions between business and government elites to determine Chinese outward foreign investment, and by exploring the reasons for selecting certain foreign investments in light of internal political and economic concerns and the external effect of investing in politically sensitive countries, the book highlights the political underpinnings and calculations of China's foreign investment. It thus sheds light on current merchant-state dualism by concluding that merchant-state dualism is the most suitable model for explaining contemporary Chinese government-business relations.
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5263-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5264-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
249
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
I: Exposition of China's Outward FDI No access Pages 1 - 48
II: Merchant-State Dualism in China's History No access Pages 49 - 80
III: Current Illustrations of Dualism in China's FDI No access Pages 81 - 116
IV: Decision-Making and Political Give-and-Take in FDI No access Pages 117 - 130
V: Case Study One - The Iron and Steel Industry No access Pages 131 - 154
VI: Case Study Two - The Oil and Gas Industry No access Pages 155 - 196
VII: Case Study Three - The Electrical Appliances Industry No access Pages 197 - 234
