The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018

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From 1998 to 2018, China had three political-economic crises, resulting in bureaucratic paralysis. It was at such junctures that China's leadership launched initiatives, like the Western Development Program, that mobilized state and market actors to expedite globalization and revive economic growth. In The Belt Road and Beyond, Min Ye reevaluates the common tendency to attribute China's Belt and Road to individual leaders' strategic ambitions, using state-mobilized globalization as a comparative framework and investigative tool to understand Chinese capitalism. State-mobilized globalization has helped sustain China's high-growth economy and social-political stability, while also sparking some political backlash. In order to succeed in globalization, the author argues, China's state mobilization must readapt to global circumstances. She sheds light on the tactics China used to spring from a crisis-stricken middle economy to a formidable global power, implicating not only China, but also the world. A uniquely impartial investigation of the tactics attributed to China's recently acquired status as a formidable global power A transferable analytical tool to study policies in China, taking into account China's state system, how it intervenes in the economy, and with what effects Introduces and evaluates different methods in studying authoritarian China, arguing for the integration of different levels of analysis and disciplinary divides The Belt Road and Beyond - State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 by Min Ye Copyright Page Contents Figures Map Tables Prologue: Encountering the Silk Road in Urumqi Acknowledgments A note on Conventions Part I: THE THEORY 1 The Mobilization State: Belt, Road, and Beyond 2 State-Mobilized Globalization as Policy Analysis Part II: THE STRATEGIES 3 The Development of Western China 4 The Political Economy of China’s Outbound Investment 5 The Belt and Road Part III: SUBNATIONAL ACTORS 6 A Tale of Three Cities 7 Typologies of Chinese Companies 8 Global Implications: Roads and Roadblocks in China and Beyond Appendices Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Bibliography Index