10.05.11

New publication from past CIS fellow Roselyn Hsueh, "China's Regulatory State"

Roselyn Hsueh's new publication, "China's Regulatory State," is now available from Cornell University Press. Roselyn Hsueh was a Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow here at CIS back in 2008-09, with a joint appointment at the US-China Institute. She is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University.

CONGRATS ROSIE!

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Now available from Cornell University Press--
China's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization
by Roselyn Hsueh

Cornell University Press is pleased to announce the publication of China's Regulatory State by Roselyn Hsueh, which explores the new political-economic model that governs China, one that marks a radical break from the Mao and Deng eras, departing fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state and its own Communist past.

For more information about China's Regulatory State, see below or visit the book’s page on the Cornell University Press web site:
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?gcoi=80140100606760.

This book is available from your favorite bookseller, directly from Cornell University Press via our website, or by calling our customer service department at 1-800-666-2211. Customers in the U.K. and Europe can also order from NBN International (www.nbninternational.com); in Australia and New Zealand, please order from Footprint Books (www.footprint.com.au).

An ebook edition is also available from Amazon.com’s Kindle store here: http://tinyurl.com/3hzh556.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Today's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the Mao and Deng eras; it departs fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state and its own Communist past. It has not, however, adopted a liberal economic model. China has retained elements of statist control even though it has liberalized foreign direct investment more than any other developing country in recent years. This mode of global economic integration reveals much about China’s state capacity and development strategy, which is based on retaining government control over critical sectors while meeting commitments made to the World Trade Organization. In China's Regulatory State, Roselyn Hsueh demonstrates that China only appears to be a more liberal state; even as it introduces competition and devolves economic decision-making, the state has selectively imposed new regulations at the sectoral level, asserting and even tightening control over industry and market development, to achieve state goals.

By investigating in depth how China implemented its economic policies between 1978 and 2010, Hsueh gives the most complete picture yet of China's regulatory state, particularly as it has shaped the telecommunications and textiles industries. Hsueh contends that a logic of strategic value explains how the state, with its different levels of authority and maze of bureaucracies, interacts with new economic stakeholders to enhance its control in certain economic sectors while relinquishing control in others. Sectoral characteristics determine policy specifics although the organization of institutions and boom-bust cycles influence how the state reformulates old rules and creates new ones to maximize benefits and minimize costs after an initial phase of liberalization. This pathbreaking analysis of state goals, government-business relations, and methods of governance across industries in China also considers Japan’s, South Korea’s, and Taiwan’s manifestly different approaches to globalization.

China's Regulatory State is published in the series Cornell Studies in Political Economy, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roselyn Hsueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

"In China's Regulatory State, Roselyn Hsueh analyzes how the Chinese government has regulated foreign direct investment under the post-Mao open-door policy. According to her model, the central government tightly regulates sectors with high strategic value but will allow much looser regulation of nonstrategic subsectors. She furthers our understanding of the increasingly complex nature of China's evolving economic structure."
--Andrew Wedeman, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, author of From Mao to Market

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