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

by James Kynge
$16.50
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China Shakes the World : A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- And the Challenge for America - Thryft

China's awakening shakes global trade and politics.

China Shakes the World provides a ground-level look at how China's rise affects global trade and politics. It challenges common myths and reveals China's systemic weaknesses, such as environmental crises and a corrupt banking system. By providing dramatic stories of workers and visionaries at the heart of China's rise, Kynge helps readers understand the complexity of this global phenomenon and its consequences for the 21st century. This book is recommended for readers interested in understanding China's economic and geopolitical impact on the world.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by James Kynge
$16.50
ISBN: 9780618705641
Authors: James Kynge
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Publication: 2006-09-27
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, History, Politics, Economics
Related Topics: Asia, Historical, Politics, History
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 748 readers)

Description

“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. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food -- and its export of goods, workers, and investments -- drastically reshape world trade and politics.Delving beyond mere recitation of by-now-familiar statistics, Kynge’s on-the-ground reporting provides alternative explanations for China's explosive transformation, revealing many of the usual reasons given for its growth to be myths. Most important for the future, he details China’s deep, systemic weaknesses -- rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, faltering government institutions, a rapidly aging population -- that threaten even greater global disruptions. And he demonstrates the profound consequences of those weaknesses for American manufacturers, oil companies, banks, and ordinary consumers.Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks at the heart of this global phenomenon, China Shakes the World explains how China’s breakneck rise occurred, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both for the twenty-first century.
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China's awakening shakes global trade and politics.

China Shakes the World provides a ground-level look at how China's rise affects global trade and politics. It challenges common myths and reveals China's systemic weaknesses, such as environmental crises and a corrupt banking system. By providing dramatic stories of workers and visionaries at the heart of China's rise, Kynge helps readers understand the complexity of this global phenomenon and its consequences for the 21st century. This book is recommended for readers interested in understanding China's economic and geopolitical impact on the world.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.