Preface / Joseph Caron -- Introduction: International political economy and explanations of China's globalization … / David Zweig, Chen Zhimin -- Beyond the disciplinary heartlands: studying China's international political economy / Shaun A …. Breslin -- Soft balancing and reciprocal engagement: international structures and China's foreign policy choices / Chen Zhimin …

How has China approached the global economy? Webber, Wang and Zhu attempt to answer this question through analysis of … the concepts of globalization, transition and regionalization. China's approach has been experimental, stressing the … liberalization of trade and investment flows and the development of a market economy. By these indexes globalization in China has …