China's Entrepreneurial Army

ISBN-13: 9780199246908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 328 str.

Tai Ming Cheung; Ming Cheung Tai

Opis

This book examines the rise and fall of the Chinese military business complex between the early 1980s and late 1990s. Cheung analyzes the commercial success of this economic powerhouse, its impact on civil-military relations, and the broader benefits and drawbacks of the military's participation on money-making activities.

Recenzje

An outstanding piece of scholarship on a difficult yet fascinating subject ... The strengths of this book lie in the author's unparalleled access to the inner workings of the military commercial economy ... displays great analytical and theoretical depth.

O autorze

Tai Ming Cheung works as a consultant in the Tokyo office of PricewaterhouseCoopers Investigations Asia Ltd., helping companies manage their risk in doing business in Asia. He has previously worked as a journalist at the Far Eastern Economic Review and as an analyst for a stock brokerage in Hong Kong. He has written extensively for newspapers, media organizations, and scholarly journals.