China Shakes the World A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - And the Challenge for America

Name: China Shakes the World A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - And the Challenge for America
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ISBN: 9780618919062

ISBN-10: 0618919066

ISBN-13: 9780618919062

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Kynge

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"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleons words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from Chinas awakening reverberate across the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as Chinas ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food -- and its export of goods, workers, and investments -- drastically reshapes world trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks, Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both. He details the variety of Chinas deep and systemic…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

James Kynge has been a journalist in Asia for 20 years, covering many of the big events that have helped shape the region, including the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and the bursting of the Japanese 'bubble' in the late 1980s. For seven years he was China Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing, and is now the Pearson Group's chief representative in China.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Rags to Riches



The Future Is the Past (Except When It Isn't)



The Population Paradox: Innovation, Piracy, and the Grail of Market Share



The Ties That Bind: China Goes to Europe



America Bought and Sold: Acquiring Technology for a Great Leap Forward



Not Enough to Go Around: Natural Resources and Environmental Catastrophe



The Collapse of Social Trust



Communism vs. Democracy



Can We Be Friends?


Notes


Bibliography


Index