From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. A rapid rise in living standards in China has helped legitimize and stren

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —E

China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was heralded as historic, and for good reason: the world's most populous nation was joining the ru

This book seeks to understand the simultaneous economic and political contributors to China's changing agricultural protection levels and the central government