TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cao,Cong
TI  - GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China's Agricultural Biotechnology Policies 
T2  - Contemporary Asia in the World
SN  - 9780231171663
AV  - S494.5.B563 C35 2018
U1  - 338.1/60951 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Agricultural biotechnology
KW  - Government policy
KW  - China
KW  - Transgenic organisms
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I. Transgenic Technology and GMO Controversies --; II. Global GMO Policy --; III. Research and Commercialization of GM Crops in China --; IV. Science, Biosafety, and Regulations --; V. Polarization and Politicization of Transgenic Technology --; VI. The Chinese Media and Changing Policy --; VII. Patents and China's Bt Rice --; VII. China as a GMO Nation --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In China, as elsewhere, the debate over genetically modified organisms has become polarized into anti- and pro-GMO camps. Given the size of China's population and market, much is at stake in conflicts over regulation for domestic as well as international actors. In this book, Cong Cao provides an even-handed analysis that illuminates the tensions that have shaped China's policy toward agricultural biotechnology in a global perspective.Cao presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of how China's policy toward research and commercialization of genetically modified crops has shifted that explains how China's changing GMO stances reflect its evolving position on the world stage. While China's scientific community has set the agenda, it has encountered resistance rooted in concerns over food safety and consumers' rights as well as issues of intellectual property rights and food sovereignty. Although Chinese leaders at first sought to take advantage of the biotech revolution by promoting GMO crop consumption, Cao demonstrates that policy has since become precautionary, as seen in new laws and regulations grounded in concerns over safety and the deferral of commercialization of GM rice. He presents China's policies in light of changing global attitudes toward GM crops: As shifts in China have closely followed global trends, so has domestic activism. Drawing on government and scientific documents as well as interviews with scientists, officials, policy analysts, activists, and journalists, GMO China is an important book for China studies, science and technology studies, policy analysts, and professionals interested in the Chinese biotechnology market
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/cao-17166
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231541091
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231541091/original
ER  -