On the basis of a judicious use of indigenous materials and field research conducted in China and Japan, the author examines Sino-Japanese economic diplomacy. This original in-depth analysis concentrates on a few salient cases of Sino-Japanese economic interaction: a multibillion-dollar steel complex at Baoshan, the joint offshore oil development in the Bohai Sea, and Japanese government loans provided to fund China's important construction projects.

Chae-Jin Lee is a Professor of Political Science and East Asian Languages and cultures at the University of Kansas, where he also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington and a Visiting Foreign Scholar at Tokyo University. In addition to numerous journal contributions, his publications include Japan Faces China: Political and Economic Relations in the Postwar Era, U.S. Policy Toward Japan and Korea (coauthored with Hideo Sato) and Political Leadership in Korea(coauthored with Dae-Sook Suh).