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China Shakes the World
James Kynge
A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
Houghton Mifflin
October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0618705643
EAN: 9780618705641
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"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, James Kynge, traces the tremors from Beijing to
Tuscany to
the Midwest as China"s hunger for jobs, raw materials,
energy, and
food—and its export of goods, workers, and
investments—drastically
reshape world trade and politics. As we become increasingly dependent on China"s products and
markets, the slightest change in the Chinese economy quickly
reaches
our doorstep. Drawing on his years in the country and his
fluency in
Mandarin, Kynge probes beyond the familiar statistics to
unearth the
surprising reasons for China"s explosive growth. He sounds the
alarm as China"s systemic weaknesses—rampant fraud, crippling
environmental crises, corrupt banking systems, faltering
government
institutions—threaten greater global disruptions. Through
dramatic
stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers
and store
clerks at the center of it all, China Shakes the World
explains how
this spectacular change occurred—how it affects our jobs,
our communities,
and our local department stores—and what it will mean for the
twenty-first century.
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