Made in China : When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade / Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson.
2024
HF3043 .I64 2024
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Title
Made in China : When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade / Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson.
ISBN
9780674296800
067429680X
067429680X
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
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10.4159/9780674296800 doi
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HF3043 .I64 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
382.0951
Summary
The surprising story of how Cold War foes found common cause in transforming China's economy into a source of cheap labor, creating the economic interdependence that characterizes our world today.For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China ended two decades of Cold War isolation, China's trade relations veered in a very different direction. Elizabeth Ingleson shows how the interests of US business and the Chinese state aligned to reframe the China market: the old dream of plentiful customers gave way to a new vision of low-cost workers by the hundreds of millions. In the process, the world's largest communist state became an indispensable component of global capitalism.Drawing on Chinese- and English-language sources, including previously unexplored corporate papers, Ingleson traces this transformation to the actions of Chinese policymakers, US diplomats, maverick entrepreneurs, Chinese American traders, and executives from major US corporations including Boeing, Westinghouse, J. C. Penney, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Long before Walmart and Apple came to China, businesspeople such as Veronica Yhap, Han Fanyu, Suzanne Reynolds, and David Rockefeller instigated a trade revolution with lasting consequences. And while China's economic reorganization was essential to these connections, Ingleson also highlights an underappreciated but crucial element of the convergence: the US corporate push for deindustrialization and its embrace by politicians.Reexamining two of the most significant transformations of the 1970s--US-China rapprochement and deindustrialization in the United States--Made in China takes bilateral trade back to its faltering, uncertain beginnings, identifying the tectonic shifts in diplomacy, labor, business, and politics in both countries that laid the foundations of today's globalized economy.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND DATA
Introduction
1 The Nixon Shocks
2 The Canton Trade Fair
3 The Changing Meanings of the China Market
4 The Limits of the China Market
5 Selling Chinese Textiles
6 Mao's Death and the Continuities of Trade
7 The Glove Capital of America
8 Normalization and the Trade Deal
Conclusion
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
CONTENTS
NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND DATA
Introduction
1 The Nixon Shocks
2 The Canton Trade Fair
3 The Changing Meanings of the China Market
4 The Limits of the China Market
5 Selling Chinese Textiles
6 Mao's Death and the Continuities of Trade
7 The Glove Capital of America
8 Normalization and the Trade Deal
Conclusion
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX