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Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

byElizabeth O'Brien Ingleson

Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson revisits the 1970s, when American business leaders and Chinese officials found common cause in a commercial relationship that would transform global trade. She follows diplomats, executives, activists, retailers, and consumers as “Made in China” shifted from a political slogan to an everyday label. The book shows how decisions made before China's market reforms encouraged manufacturing partnerships, cheap imports, and American deindustrialization. Rather than an inevitable outcome, economic interdependence emerges as a negotiated project shaped by competing hopes on both sides.

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2024-03-19

Format

Hardcover

Pages

352

ISBN

9780674251830