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Author Cheung, Tai Ming.

Title Fortifying China [electronic resource] : the struggle to build a modern defense economy / Tai Ming Cheung.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 279 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Bridging the civil-military technological divide in the information age -- Innovation and stagnation during the Maoist era -- The eclipse of the defense economy under Deng Xiaoping -- The revival of the defense economy in the twenty-first century -- Building a dual-use economy -- Can the Chinese defense economy catch up? -- Chinese terms -- Historical official exchange rates between the Renminbi and U.S. dollar, 1955-2008.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Defense industries -- Technological innovations -- China.
Military-industrial complex -- China.
China -- Defenses -- Economic aspects.
China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000.
China -- Economic policy -- 2000-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0801446929 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801446924 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801468506 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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