Preface: The umbrella king -- How "Mao's China" became the "factory to the world" -- Taiwan's "economic miracle …" -- "Second spring" : Taiwan's traditional manufacturers discover mainland China -- From SME to ODM : Taiwan's integration into … boat to go to sea" : Taiwanese business practices in China -- Affordable luxury : changing the way China eats (and more …

This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China … confounding hybrid of statist and neoliberal forms of capitalism - as the outcome of China’s geopolitical engagement of the USA … geopolitical catastrophe drove China to open its economy, while GPNs enabled China to generate substantial export surpluses which …