Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Please note that books with a 10-20 working days delivery time will not arrive before Christmas.
Please note that books with a 10-20 working days delivery time will not arrive before Christmas.
A01=Elizabeth OBrien Ingleson
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Elizabeth OBrien Ingleson
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJF
Category=HBJK
Category=JFFS
Category=KCL
Category=KCLT
Category=KJZ
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

English

By (author): Elizabeth OBrien Ingleson

The surprising story of how Cold War foes found common cause in transforming Chinas 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, Chinas 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 worlds 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 Chinas 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 1970sUS-China rapprochement and deindustrialization in the United StatesMade 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 todays globalized economy.

See more
Current price €35.09
Original price €38.99
Save 10%
A01=Elizabeth OBrien InglesonAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Elizabeth OBrien Inglesonautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=HBJFCategory=HBJKCategory=JFFSCategory=KCLCategory=KCLTCategory=KJZCOP=United StatesDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 634g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674251830

About Elizabeth OBrien Ingleson

Elizabeth OBrien Ingleson is Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. She earned her doctorate at the University of Sydney and held fellowships at Yale University the University of Virginia and Southern Methodist University. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Cold War History.

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept