bilateral Chinese-American polarization. While China has been among the staunchest advocates and beneficiaries of globalization … China in a relatively strong economic position." …

"China's transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its … socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this … economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of capital and people from Taiwan as well as Hong Kong to China, to seek …

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 …