1. Carl J. Dahlman, and Jean-Eric Aubert, China and the Knowledge Economy: Seizing the 21st Century, WBI Development Studies, (Washington DC: The World Bank, 2002 ): 49.
2. Here, one cannot but mention Foucault’s work showing that power relations take root in the whole of the social network. See, in particular, Michel Foucault, “Le pouvoir, comment s’exercet-il?” (Power, how is it exercised?), in Michel Foucault, un parcours philosophique, (Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics), 1982–1983, Hubert Dreyfus, and Paul Rabinovitch ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 ): 318.
3. Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (eds.) The Sociology of Economic Life (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1992): 9. See also the Introduction in this volume.
4. See Leng,Tse-Kang, “Economic Globalization and IT Talent Flows across the Taiwan Straits: the Taipei/Shanghai/Silicon Valley Triangle,” Asian Survey, 42,2 (2002): 20–21.
5. Stephen D. Krasner, “Sovereignty,” Foreign Policy (January/February 2001): 21.