State and Business in the Era of Globalization: The Case of Cross-Strait Linkages in the Computer Industry

Leng, Tse‐Kang

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“…Building on the foundation of heavy-industry growth during the state socialist era from the 1950s to late 1970s, Chinese reformers moved to initiate market reforms and emphasize light industry and services. From the 1990s to the present, local governments have given Asian-invested and domestic firms economic support, which varies from region to region, allowing them to become suppliers to Western technology multinationals through exports (Segal, 2003;Leng, 2005;Appelbaum, 2009;Hung, 2009). The Chinese national economy has thus undergone a fundamental transformation from being based on heavy industry, with guaranteed lifetime employment and generous welfare provided to urban workers, to one that mainly relies on foreign and private investments and massive use of migrant laborers in light industries, where wages and labor protection are severely suppressed.…”

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Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers

2012

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In 2010, a startling 18 young migrant workers attempted suicide at Foxconn Technology Group production facilities in China. This article looks into the development of the Foxconn Corporation to understand the advent of capital expansion and its impact on frontline workers' lives in China. It also provides an account of how the state facilitates Foxconn's production expansion as a form of monopoly capital. Foxconn stands out as a new phenomenon of capital expansion because of the incomparable speed and scale of its capital accumulation in all regions of China. This article explores how the workers at Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, have been subjected to work pressure and desperation that might lead to suicides on the one hand but also open up daily and collective resistance on the other hand.

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Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers

2012

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“…The same phenomenon transformed the shoe industry in the 1980s when Taiwanese manufacturers relocated to the mainland. Laptop production followed suit twenty years later (Leng 2005). For many years, Taiwanese companies had accounted for 80 per cent of global laptop assembly.…”

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China's Trade Relations with the United States in Perspective

Wang

2010

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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China's trade relations with the United States over the past four decades is a topic that has not been fully dealt with in scholarly works. This paper charts the course of US-China economic relations since 1971, explains the principal forces stimulating growth and encouraging change and, finally, discusses how these two economic giants fit into an interlocking Asian and world economy. In reaction to the post-2008 financial downturn, advocates for a new world economic order have suggested a rebalancing of global demand, which will arguably become a major, politically charged issue in the US and in China in the years to come. Growing economic interdependence has quickly presented new challenges and opportunities, with issues such as human rights, Most-Favoured-Nation status, the Taiwan and Tibet question, and the huge American trade deficit threatening to cloud the relationship at times. With China's emergence as a major power and America's hegemonic ambitions tested in successive wars, the contradiction between a booming commercial relationship and conflict associated with geopolitical and ideological differences will continue to constitute a serious challenge. The long-term goal for each side will be to forge economic ties strong enough to create a stable political relationship, rather than to be held hostage by geopolitical constraints.

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“…Most research on Taiwan's mainland taishang has focused on economic issues, such as investment and business strategies, and related structural problems that Taiwanese companies face on the mainland (e.g. Leng 1998bLeng , 2002Leng , 2005Chen 2005), while the development of specific mainland localities or regions exposed to Taiwanese entrepreneurship has also been subject to some scrutiny (e.g. Zhang 1996;Chuan 2002;Zhang 2006;Zhu 2006).…”

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The Political Thinking of the Mainland Taishang: Some Preliminary Observations from the Field

Schubert

2010

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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This article explores the political thinking of Taiwanese business people ( taishang) and factory managers ( taigan) on the Chinese mainland by drawing on qualitative data gathered between 2006 and 2008 in the Pearl River Delta and the Shanghai/ Kunshan metropolitan area. An ideal type of taishang is constructed to explain the major features of their identification with Taiwan, their perspectives on cross-Strait relations, their integration in Chinese society and their self-assessment as political actors in the shaping of cross-Strait relations. An important finding of this study is that the taishang is a rather apolitical figure who does not see much leeway to develop autonomous political leverage. However, this may change gradually as cross-Strait relations have eased significantly since the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) came to power in mid-2008 and the governments in Beijing and Taibei have experienced a rapprochement.

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State and Business in the Era of Globalization: The Case of Cross-Strait Linkages in the Computer Industry

Cited by 9 publications

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Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers

Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers

China's Trade Relations with the United States in Perspective

The Political Thinking of the Mainland Taishang: Some Preliminary Observations from the Field

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