Companies, private and state-owned, are the main commercial actors, employers, and revenue generators in China; they are of central concern in studies of China and globalization. How they approach nationalist strategies sheds light on the nature of Chinese capitalism, the characteristics of business–government interactions, and the prospect – distant or otherwise – of political liberalization in China. China specialists have conducted in-depth research on corporate behaviors in 1990s China, including Bruce Dickson’s surveys on “red capitalists,” Kellee Tsai’s informal adaptation of private capital, and Scott Kennedy’s work on business lobbying across different sectors. In the new millennium, political studies seemed to focus less on companies, while burgeoning business studies have primarily concerned themselves with technology and management issues.