Journal of Contemporary China

Zhao, Suisheng

doi: 10.1080/10670569408724204pmid: N/A

Tian, Gang

doi: 10.1080/10670569408724205pmid: N/A

Shanghai's new role as an entrepôt centre has emerged since the mid‐1980s when the central procurement system of export products was abolished. Along with Shanghai's investment, labour intensive industries have been shifted from Shanghai to its inland provinces. Consequently, the commodity composition of re‐exports has been rapidly changed from agricultural products to manufactured products. Meanwhile, the suppliers became much more concentrated in its immediately neighbouring provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, the changing in the commodity composition is not due to the rise in the heterogeneity which would increase the need of the services of middlemen in entrepôt as suggested by the theory which was developed by Yunwing Sung. In the absence of a well‐functioning market mechanism, Shanghai's re‐exports became increasingly depending on the products manufactured in Shanghai's FTCs (Foreign Trade Companies)’ joint ventures invested in other provinces, while its comparative advantage in trade as a middlemen has not been fully utilized since then.

Zhao, Dingxin

doi: 10.1080/10670569408724206pmid: N/A

This paper argues against both conservative and liberal theories of modernization expressed in the “new authoritarianism debate” on the eve of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement. The paper argues that a defensive authoritarian regime, that is a regime that can only rely on and is able to base its survival on performance legitimacy, can lead a successful modernization. Comparing development experiences of historical Taiwan to that of the current mainland China, this paper analyzes the historical background, sources of constraints as well as autonomies of the state power that facilitated the formation of defensive regimes in the historical Taiwan and the current mainland China.

Zhang, Ming

doi: 10.1080/10670569408724207pmid: N/A

What is the Chinese role in international security of the Asia‐Pacific region? Has it become more cooperative or more potentially threatening? This paper addresses these issues through a systemic study of Chinese foreign trade, attitudes, and behaviors thowards Japan, the U.S., and Russia. The study covers the period from 1979 to 1992 and links to the most recent development in 1994.

Fewsmith, Joseph

doi: 10.1080/10670569408724211pmid: N/A

Luo yi ning ge er, Disanzhi yanjing kan Zhongguo [Looking at China through a third eye]. Translated by Wang Shan (Taiyuan: shanxi publishing house, 1994).