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China Shakes the World, October 2006
Hardcover

CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD
By: 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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Today - October 8, 2006
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