1. China as a latecomer in world industrial markets; 2. The outside world
as an impetus for change in China; 3. Tailor to the world: China's
emergence as a global power in textiles; 4. Beating the system with
industrial restructuring: China's response to the multifiber arrangement
(MFA); 5. China looms large: reform and rationalization in the textile
industry; 6. Industrial change in the shadow of the MFA: the role of
top-level strategy, mid-level intervention, and low-level demand in China's
textile industry; 7. Chinese shipbuilding: the modest origins of an
emerging industrial giant; 8. Dangerous currents: navigating boom and bust
cycles in international shipbuilding; 9. Chinese shipbuilding and global
surplus capacity: making a virtue out of necessity; 10. Market-oriented
solutions for industrial adjustment: the changing pattern of state
intervention in Chinese shipbuilding; 11. Who did what to whom?: making
sense of the reform process in China's shipbuilding industry; 12. External
shocks, state capacity, and national responses for economic adjustment:
explaining industrial change in China; 13. China in the contemporary
international political economy; Appendix: contours of the research effort.
