Description:
During the economic reforms of the last twenty years, China adopted a wide array of policies designed to raise its technological capability and foster industrial growth. Ideologically, the government would not promote private-ownership firms and...
Brief description: Adam Segal is Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Review Quotes:
Digital Dragon provides an engrossing account of China's efforts to develop nongovernmental high-technology firms as a means of increasing the country's indigenous technological capability.... Through its rich case studies, Digital Dragon offers a complex picture of how high-tech enterprises must be nurtured by a mix of relative autonomy.... Segal's absorbing analysis is highly recommended to sinologists and generalists alike.
--Thomas G. Moore "Perspectives on Politics"