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Book Editorial:7
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Ted C. Fishman
Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
Rank: 695
Download Description "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. "--This text refers to the
Digital
edition.
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![]() | | 5. | Review | | "An excellent portrait of the biggest change in the world economy since
WWII. It should be required reading for every U.S. entrepreneur. I am
going to make my whole staff read it."-- John Koten, Inc
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![]() | | 6. | Book Description | | China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic
pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the
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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Ted C. Fishman
![]() | | | China on the rise | | (Jerusalem,Israel) February 16, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | This work is not only a description of the emerging Chinese supereconomy it
is a well- written portrait of one of the world's most dynamic and rapidly
- changing societies. Ted Fishman is a veteran journalist with... read full review |
![]() | | | Strongly NOT recommended | | (Ankara Turkey) June 22, 2005 - 1.0/5 stars | | Those people who are rightfully interested in the immensely important topic
of "The Rise of China" would be lured into buying this book very easily.
Alas, there are serious problems with the content and presentation... read full review |
![]() | | | long on hyperbole, short on anlysis | | (chicago, il) June 6, 2005 - 1.0/5 stars | | the writing is remarkable in its lack of depth, miserly analysis, and inane
conclusions. for those serious about understanding china beyond a
superficial level, i recommend reading professor alwyn young of the
university... read full review |
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