GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China's Agricultural Biotechnology Policies

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Cong Cao

GMO China

How Global Debates Transformed China's Agricultural Biotechnology Policies

Cong Cao

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Columbia University Press
02 October 2018

Genetic engineering; Agricultural science

Series: Contemporary Asia in the World

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.

By: Cong Cao
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780231171663
ISBN 10: 0231171668
Series: Contemporary Asia in the World
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 02 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Transgenic Technology and GMO Controversies 2. Global GMO Policy 3. Research and Commercialization of GM Crops in China 4. Science, Biosafety, and Regulations 5. Polarization and Politicization of Transgenic Technology 6. The Chinese Media and Changing Policy 7. Patents and China’s Bt Rice 8. China as a GMO Nation Notes Bibliography Index

Cong Cao is professor of innovation studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of China’s Scientific Elite (2004) and, with Denis Fred Simon, of China’s Emerging Technological Edge: Assessing the Role of High-End Talent (2009).

Reviews for GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China's Agricultural Biotechnology Policies

Based on a decade of fieldwork and interviews, Cong Cao's impressive research offers a fascinating window into the complexity of Chinese policy making on a highly contentious issue. Revealing the difficulty of formulating a consistent, sustainable policy that can reconcile the interests of the multiple actors and stakeholders, it will be of wide interest within Chinese and science and technology studies, as well as to those seeking business opportunities in agricultural biotechnology. -- Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Cong Cao's is the first major study of China's experience with the promotion of and the debate about genetically modified organisms. GMO China is a thoroughly researched and insightful work. -- Erik Baark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology