China's Quest For Foreign Technology by William C. Hannas

A concise study of China’s long-standing, state-driven effort to acquire and adapt foreign technology, examining the policies, institutions, and strategies—legal purchases, licensing and joint ventures, reverse engineering, and covert acquisition—used to promote modernization; it analyzes how political control, ideological shifts, institutional weaknesses, and foreign resistance shaped technological outcomes and assesses the economic and security implications of technology transfer for China’s development and international relations.