As the author sees it, foreign direct investment (FDI) in China is the most dramatic manifestation of China's open-door policy. After discussing the economic importance of the "economically opened coastal areas" (econocoas), he examines overall qualitative trends in foreign investment and its...

Economic integration is essentially a process of unification, the means whereby coherence is imposed upon previously separate, even disparate, geographical regions. According to the authors, cultural and linguistic affinities have no doubt helped to facilitate the economic integration of China,...