Science and Technology in Post-Mao China

The essays cover an impressive range of topics The book offers a very valuable balance-sheet for professional analysts of Chinas economic and scientific policies, and its case studies in particular may prove useful background reading for foreign businessmen dealing with corporate strategy and tactics. Since the whole economic reforms involve a fine balancing act between central planning and free market forces, between central control and the delegation and decentralization of power and authorityvital issues in developing countries of the Third and Second Worlda book about the way China grapples with these problems should prove interesting also for comparative studies in modernization theory. -- Stefan B. Polter * Asian Affairs * The studies brought together in this solid, meaty volume appear to add up to a fairly comprehensive treatment of Chinas present scientific and technological condition The book is a valuable addition to the literature relating to the relationship between science and the state, in the particular context of a centrally planned economy subjected to the rigorous primacy of political ideology. -- A. J. Robertson * Business History * This careful and realistic overview of Chinas past and present technological state presents an even-handed, historical account of the transition from Nationalist to Communist policies toward science and scientists Well-integrated chapters make this an informative, readable, and fascinating account of Chinas lovehate relationship with technology. Anyone who wants to understand the vagaries of Chinese policy toward science and foreign influences should enjoy this book. -- Martha R. OKennon * Science Books & Films * Thanks to this original, clear, and vital collection, the place of technical and scientific issues in China today and in the near future can be understood by all. The editors have assembled 14 essays by established, respected specialists. Despite the variety of subjectsranging from historical precedents, through present-day domestic policy emphases, to technology transfer from abroadmasterful introductory and concluding chapters draw everything into a unified survey that will serve intermediate and advanced students and observers of contemporary Chinese developments. * Choice *

Merle Goldman was Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.