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China Shakes the World

A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America

By James Kynge

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| Paperback | 9780618919062

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"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate across the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous huContinue

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate across the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s 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 China’s deep and systemic weaknesses—fraud and corruption, environmental crises, faltering government institutions, an aging population—that threaten even greater global disruptions. As Thomas Friedman did in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Kynge gives us a lucid and necessary account of a far-reaching phenomenon.

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  • China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation

    Here's a pub quiz question for you: who is the most oft-quoted economist in the works of Karl Marx? Adam Smith? No, he gets a lot of mentions, but not the most. It is in fact David Ricardo, a contemporary of Smith's in the eighteenth century. In Chin ... (read full critics)

    asianreviewofbooks published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

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