From Swords to Plowshares? Defense Industry Reform in the PRC

by Paul H. Folta

(Westview Press, 1992)

Book Reviews

"...a discerning and comprehensive description and evaluation of China's conversion strategy at both the macro and micro levels." Mel Gurtov, quoted in The China Quarterly, September 1993.

"The conversion of defence industry to civil manufacturing is one of the prominent security problems of the 1990s....  In Russia, Ukraine and some other regions of former communist Europe, there is no prospect for economic advance unless many of the human and capital resources deployed in the defence sector can be used effectively for civil goods production....reflects thorough research and includes case-studies of two motor cycle and two integrated circuit factories. It should be required reading for all those interested in the economic future of the former Soviet Union as well as China." Trevor Taylor, Royal Institute of International Affairs, quoted in International Affairs, January 1993.