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The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future.
How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and
Scribner
February 2005
352 pages ISBN: 0743257529 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the
economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and
in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and
essential, this dramatic account of china's growing
dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C.
Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global
economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects
us all. How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and
Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of
global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows
three times faster than the United States? That China uses
40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its
steel? What is the global impact of 300 million rural
Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities
in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly
all of the world's biggest companies now have large-scale
operations in China? What does the corporate march into
China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and
the rest of the world? Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so
dangerously competitive? What could happen when China will
be able to manufacture nearly everything -- computers,
cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals -- that the United
States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do
these developments reach around the world and straight into
the lives of all Americans? These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc.
provides answers.Veteran journalist and former commodities
trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the
megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman's account begins
with the burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost
factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion
consumers, both of which are being driven by historically
unprecedented infusions of foreign capital and
technological know-how. Traveling through China's frenetic
landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets,
streets, stores, towns, and cities where the story of
Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all
humanity. Fishman also draws on interviews with Chinese,
American, and European workers, managers, and executives to
show how China will force all of us to make big changes in
how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers,
citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly
engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage
and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers
think about America's future.
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