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Evan Feigenbaum - China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age - 9780804746014 - V9780804746014
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China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age

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Description for China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age Hardback. This book skillfully weaves together four stories: Chinese views of technology during the Communist era; the role of the military in Chinese political and economic life; the evolution of open and flexible conceptions of public management in China; and the technological dimensions of the rise of Chinese power. Num Pages: 360 pages, 37. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JPS; JWA; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.

In the spring of 1987, the father of China’s strategic missile program, Qian Xuesen, told colleagues that China must steel itself for a century of sustained “intellectual warfare.” His use of a military metaphor was not a linguistic quirk, but reflected the central role of the military in China’s emergence as a modern state, especially in the period since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Over the course of the Communist era, a uniquely military approach to China's development became embedded in the ideologies of the country's political leadership, in policy choices about national security and ... Read more

This book tells the story of how and why the Chinese military came to play such a powerful role in China's economic and institutional development. It weaves together four stories: Chinese views of technology since 1950, the role of the military in China’s political and economic life, the evolution of open and flexible conceptions of public management in China, and the technological dimensions of the rise of Chinese power.

But the book primarily explores and explains a paradox. This military approach to technology and development emerged during China's period of greatest external threat, 1950-69. Yet these policies and management methods persist even as China enjoys perhaps its most benign strategic environment since the 1840s.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804746014
SKU
V9780804746014
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About Evan Feigenbaum
Evan A. Feigenbaum, currently serving as a Member of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, has taught Chinese foreign policy at Harvard University, where he has been Lecturer on Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Initiative in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is ... Read more

Reviews for China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age
"Students of Chinese technical and scientific development owe Feigenbaum a debt of gratitude for so richly constructing the story of China's strategic-technology planners and their organizational and institutional impact."
Journal of Asian Studies
"Feigenbaum's study is rich in detail and thought provoking in its conclusions."
John Frankenstein, Weatherhead East Asia Institute
Columbia University
"This is ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age


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