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Paolo Davide Farah and Elena Cima (eds.), China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law, Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, 548pp, ISBN 9781409448488, £115.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2017

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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 199 - 202
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References

1 As of April 2017. See the IMF World Economic Outlook, available at www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx (accessed 14 June 2017).

2 Statistics on foreign direct investment are available from UNCTAD, available at www.unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/FDI%20Statistics/FDI-Statistics.aspx (accessed 14 June 2017).

3 Note, however: X. Zhang, International Trade Regulation in China (2006); B. Eichengreen, Y.C. Park, and C. Wyplosz (eds.), China, Asia, and the New World Economy (2008); F. Snyder, The EU, The WTO and China (2010); W. Shan and J. Su (eds.), China and International Investment Law (2015).

4 For common accounts and their context, see Longxi, Z., ‘The Myth of the Other: China in the Eyes of the West’, (1988) 15 Critical Inquiry 108–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 For a general overview: M. Koskenniemi, Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties Arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law, UN Doc. A/CN.4/L682 (2006).

6 Farah, P.D. and Cima, E. (eds.), China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (2016), Ch. 8 at 134–6Google Scholar.

7 Ibid., Ch. 22, 23, 24.

8 Already the indirect subject of litigation at the WTO: Panel Report China — Measures Affecting Trading Rights and Distribution Services For Certain Publications and Audiovisual Entertainment Products, adopted 19 August 2009, WT/DS363/R.

9 For a brief overview of the key issues: Leary, V.A., ‘The WTO and the Social Clause: Post-Singapore’, (1997) 8 European Journal of International Law 118–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at 226

11 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at 233–4.

12 For an overview, see United Nations Environment Programme (unep), China's Green Long March: A Study of Renewable Energy, Environmental Industry and Cement Sector, UNEP Joint Report (2013).

13 Discussed as part of Hu Jintao's ‘harmonious society’: Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at xxvi.

14 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at 185ff.

15 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, Ch. 16: P.D. Farah and R. Tremolada, ‘A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Water, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development’.

16 For example, Farah and Cima, supra note 6, Ch. 8, 27.

17 For example, Farah and Cima, supra note 6, Ch. 18, 26.

18 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at 44–53.

19 For example, Farah and Cima, supra note 6, Ch. 12.

20 Lang, A.T.F., ‘Reflecting on “Linkage”: Cognitive and Institutional Change in The International Trading System’, (2007) 70 The Modern Law Review 523–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

21 Farah and Cima, supra note 6, at 20–2.

22 A paradigmatic example of méconnaisance: P Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977), 164–8.