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

by James Kynge

Overview

“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 around 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 the people who are driving China's transformation — 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618919062
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/11/2007
Series:	Edition 001 Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

James Kynge, a journalist in Asia for two decades, is the former bureau chief of the Financial Times in Beijing. Fluent in Mandarin, he has visited every Chinese province and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and has appeared on CNN, the BBC, and National Public Radio.

Editorial Reviews

Kynge's crisp assessment of the dynamics involved is both authoritative and eye-opening.
Publishers Weekly

Should the U.S. worry about China? Most definitely—but, by Kynge's account, for different reasons from the ones being raised on Capitol Hill.
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