A new book by David Zweig

David Zweig’s The War for Chinese Talent in America, set to be published by the Association for Asian Studies, August 27, 2024.

Summer 2024 from the Asia Shorts Series of the Association for Asian Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press

Zweig, David Stephen

China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic / Edited by Lowell Dittmer, George T. Yu.
Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010, p.37-60

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With China’s rise as a major player in international affairs, how have its policies toward developing countries changed? And how do those policies now fit with its overall foreign policy goals? This timely new book explores the complexities of China’s evolving relationship with the developing world. The authors first examine the political and economic implications of China’s efforts to be seen as a responsible great power. A series of comprehensive regional chapters then showcase a quid pro quo relationship – variously involving crucial raw materials, energy, and consumers on the one hand and infrastructure development, aid, and security on the other. The concluding chapter illuminates China’s search for national identity in the context of widespread suspicions of its strategic motives. The result is a thorough, yet accessible, view of an increasingly important topic in global affairs. This book explores the complexities of China’s evolving relationship with the developing world, including countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. “synopsis” may belong to another edition of this title.

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David Zweig
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989

SYNOPSIS: During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move rural China to even higher stages of collectivism. David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China’s central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. The limited institutionalization of the system allowed the radicals to promote their principles through “policy winds,” speeches generated by newspaper articles, networks of political allies, and organized visits; they also linked their policies to ongoing political and economic campaigns. In spite of this radical ideology and frequent upheavals in the countryside, Zweig finds that Chinese peasants had no ideological affinity for Mao’s theory of the continuing revolution and reacted to each policy change on the basis of how it affected their personal, family, or collective interests. Despite intense propaganda, cadres adjusted the impact of these radical policies so that the peasants’ conservative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to improve their own lot remained intact.

Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals’ program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.

Edited by William A. Joseph, Christine P.W. Wong, and David Zweig
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991

SYNOPSIS: Since the Cultural Revolution, data have been uncovered to illuminate that tumultuous decade. In this volume 13 scholars examine the gap between the ideology of the Revolution and the harsh and contradictory reality of its outcome. They focus particularly on the violence, coercion, and constant tension between the need for centralization to enforce policies and the need for decentralizing decision-making if those goals were to be achieved.

Ogden, Suzanne; Hartford, Kathleen; Sullivan, Lawrence; Zweig, David

SYNOPSIS: Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents. In their introductions to the material, the editors address the political economy of the democracy movement, the evolving concept of democracy during the movement, the movement’s contribution to China becoming a civil society, and the changing view of the Chinese Communist Party by students, intellectuals, workers and others, as the crisis unfolded.

Zweig, David Stephen; Chen, Changgui

SYNOPSIS: This study presents data on the factors behind Chinese students’ decisions about return. Based on analytical methods, it contains an interpretation about China’s brain drain, examining why PRC students and scholars left China, and the factors contributing to their decisions about returning.

David Zweig. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c1997

SYNOPSIS: A comprehensive analysts of China’s rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants’ search for economic growth. Key topics covered include: the responsibility system, privatization and changing property rights, industrialization, social conflict, cadre corruption, urban-rural relations, conflict over land, rural urbanization, and the impact of globalization. The introduction skillfully integrates the themes that run throughout this work and the concluding chapter focuses on current and future problems in rural China.

David Zweig. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002

Zweig, David; 陈志敏

21世纪的中国是全球化高歌猛进的中国。2001年，中国终于加入了贸易组织。2003年，中国成为了全球第一大外国直接投资接受国。2004年，中国超越了日本，成为了第三贸易国。在中国国内，社会主义市场经济制度基本成型，行政体制改革不断深入，社会主义民主政治建设成为重要的议事日程。所有这一切的变化既是中国全球化的表征，也在一定意义上是中国全球化的结果。

Edited by David Zweig and Chen Zhimin. London: Routledge, 2007

PREFACE: Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China’s economic and political transition.

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