Wu Jieh-min is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Stacy Mosher is a translator and editor based in Brooklyn. Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Wu has written a superb book that deserves the attention of
historians, sociologists, political scientists, and scholars from
other disciplines interested in the nuances and paradoxes of
China’s post-Mao opening, its global effects, and cross-strait
relations.
*Journal of Chinese History*
Anyone wishing to go beyond simplistic formulae summarizing the
narrative of China’s so-called economic miracle will have to read
this detailed, nuanced, yet overarching research.
*China Quarterly*
Wu Jieh-min opens a new door by studying the experience of
Taiwanese businesspeople (‘Taishang’) who played a critical role in
the early stages of China’s reforms.
*Survival*
Rival Partners is a major contribution to the study of Chinese
development and global capitalism. Weaving together rich materials
on Taiwanese manufacturers, local Chinese officials, and migrant
labor, Wu details how China’s export manufacturing model thrived
and unraveled, leading to today’s crisis and transformation. It is
a meticulous study of the rent-seeking and developmental dual
characters of the Chinese state.
*Ho-fung Hung, author of The China Boom*
Based on decades of theoretically informed and expertly crafted
empirical research, this book is an intellectual feast connecting
shop-floor realities and local citizenship regimes to cross-strait
relations and global political economy. A rare and singularly
insightful Taiwan perspective on China’s rise.
*Ching Kwan Lee, author of The Specter of Global China and
Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier*
Wu has written a magnificent monograph on the collaborative
construction of development between two seemingly rivaling actors:
Guangdong officials and Taiwanese entrepreneurs. It points to the
significance of invisible coalitions in developmental theory.
*Nan Lin, Duke University*
Rival Partners explores export-oriented industrialization in China
as a chapter of the post-war capitalist development of Taiwan. With
its sharp research question and original argument combined with
solid fieldwork, meticulous analysis, and comprehensive theoretical
dialogue, Rival Partners is a milestone in our understanding of
China as the world factory since the 1980s.
*Gwo-shyong Shieh, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan*
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