Reviews and media
“Meticulously researched…Rife with interesting and fresh anecdotes, the book takes us through the early days of an unsteady trading relationship trying to find its footing…Ingleson offers keen observations about the differing ways China and the United States incentivized trade during normalization.”
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How “Made in China” became American Gospel
Excerpt from Made in China
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Excerpt from Made in China, in French
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Author interview with Shannon Tiezzi
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Conversation with Chinese Whispers podcast host, Cindy Yu.
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Dan Banik and Elizabeth Ingleson explore the historical transformation of the "Made in China" label, how the neoliberal shift in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s was pivotal for China's integration into the global capitalist system, and the geopolitical implications of China's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse.
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“Meticulously researched” and “rife with interestin and fresh anecdotes”, Made in China “reminds us of the roots of the complexities still present in the China-US and global trade overall.”
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“The story that Ingleson paints reminds us that the ubiquity of ‘Made in China’ labels on products sold in the US was not inevitable.”
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Made in China “makes a spirited contribution” to debates on US-China trade &“brings fresh insight.”
“The book is far from a collection of humdrum statistics, being rich in anecdotes and personality sketches.”
“Made in China is the best overview we have of how the United States helped make China the world’s foremost trading power. Ingleson skillfully shows how American needs and Chinese wishes combined to remake global capitalism”
“Ingleson nicely meshes large-scale economic analysis with fine-grained accounts of how businesspeople warily navigated the new world of U.S.-China trade…a revealing overview of a critical sea change in the world economy.”
U.S. businessman Charles Abrams (second from right) and Don King (second from left) promote sporting goods from China in 1978. KEYSTONE PICTURES ARCHIVE. Read full excerpt here