Yeling Tan, Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order

Excerpt

Yeling Tan’s fascinating new book, Disaggregating China, Inc., addresses topics of both enduring and immediate interest to scholars of China’s political economy, and well as issues relevant to the broader field of international relations. Amid persistent debates over China’s commitment to economic globalization and a “liberal” economic order, Tan explores China’s adaptation to membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), which it joined over twenty years ago - in 2001. The early chapters explore how we can make sense of China’s heterogeneous responses to WTO integration, exemplified simultaneously by silky-smooth market-based assimilation of its export industries and persistent obstacles in other sectors - such as financial services - that were scheduled to “open” but never truly have? …