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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817637803321

Autore

Gao Yuning

Titolo

China as the workshop of the world : an analysis at the national and industry level of China in the international division of labor / / Yuning Gao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-280-66101-1

9786613637949

0-203-80782-0

1-136-66451-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; ; 43

Disciplina

338.0951

Soggetti

Industrial productivity - China

Industrialization - China

Industries - China

China Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; China as the Workshop of the World; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Background, theoretical framework, and literature review; 2. Scale and scope of the "world workshop": China's place in world production; 3. Pattern and sophistication of the "world workshop": China in the world market; 4. The competitiveness of the "world workshop": China's place on the service part of global value chain; 5. Comparative study of three of China's industries in the international manufacturing division; 6. Conclusions

Appendix 1: The broad economic categoriesAppendix 2: The International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 3; Appendix 3: The Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is China becoming the ""workshop of the world"" in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational companies believe - simply a processing segment in



global production networks? This book examines China's role in the international division of labor: it analyzes the scale and scope of China's manufacture; the type and relative sophistication of its exports in the world market; and its position in the global value chain. It shows that China monopolizes industrial production by being the processing center of world.Based on extensive original