China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (Edition 001)
by James Kynge
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.951
EAN: 9780618919062
ISBN: 0618919066
Label: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2007-09-05
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
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Summary: Informative, Entertaining Read
Comment: I picked this book up while doing quite a bit of reading on East Asia, and it's by far the best I chose. Telling the tale of China through experiences and interviews was a brilliant way to make a lot of information easily digestible. This book wasn't written to tell the scholarly what they already know, it was written so that those interested could begin to grasp this complicated country. After reading, be ready to convince yourself that you shouldn't buy a ticket over (unless you can afford it, then get out of here) because this book will likely do for you what it did for me, create the beginnings of understanding with an insatiable hunger for everything Chinese.
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Summary: China Shakes the World
Comment: Good stories that give an understanding of what's been happening in China since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
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Summary: As China goes, so goes the world?
Comment: Kynge recounts the rise of China as an economic and resource-sucking giant on the world scene in the last 20 years. The story, as usual with China and its 1.3 billion people, hinges on the massive markets and demand that even fractions of that enormity can generate.
The good news is that the shift of manufacturing to China, with its extremely (and artificially, Kynge points out) low production costs, has resulted in a flood of cheaper goods in the US and Europe, and that China has been buying billions of US treasury notes which of kept mortgage rates low. The bad news is these trends may not be sustainable, that any manufacturing still outside of China may be completely sucked into the Eastern giant, and that world resource demand (oil, steel, water, environment as a resource) by the Chinese giant may suck the world dry and create massive price and allocation problems.
Whether the reader is optimistic or pessimistic, in either case it is a troubled future, as the subtitle says, that awaits.
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Summary: A Startling Preview of the Emerging China
Comment: China Shakes the World is a well documented panorama of what China is moving to be in the near future. Yet the author writes in a spirit that is as entertaining in its irony as it is instructive. He uses statistics, particularly, that rock the reader, i.e., the number of young Chinese girls who commit suicide each day out of sheer hopelessness. (500+) Many of his figures demonstrate the impact of the sheer size of China's population, now more than 1.3 billion.
I recommend China Shakes the World as a resource book to keep on hand, a program of events that is already unfolding whether we in the West like it or not.
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Summary: Great Book On China's Economic Miracle
Comment: The book is not difficult and it is not complex, but it is dense in the sense it is packed with so much insight and value. I started out putting post-its on the pages I thought I would want to refer to again later, but had to stop when it became clear I was "post-itting" (if that is not a word, it certainly should be) just about every other page.
This book is unsurpassed in analyzing China's impact on the world. Through real world examples, it captures just how different China is in its business conduct just how strange a trading partner China is, and how it resembles no other great power. Kynge beautifully weaves China's contradictions into a tapestry that allows us to understand it, as best as is possible.
Though this book is in many ways a "big-think" book, it is nonetheless absolutely relevant to those doing business in or with China. It provides the best macroeconomic analysis of China I have yet seen and, by doing so, it provides invaluable knowledge of how to adjust/position your business to compete.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Informative, Entertaining Read
Comment: I picked this book up while doing quite a bit of reading on East Asia, and it's by far the best I chose. Telling the tale of China through experiences and interviews was a brilliant way to make a lot of information easily digestible. This book wasn't written to tell the scholarly what they already know, it was written so that those interested could begin to grasp this complicated country. After reading, be ready to convince yourself that you shouldn't buy a ticket over (unless you can afford it, then get out of here) because this book will likely do for you what it did for me, create the beginnings of understanding with an insatiable hunger for everything Chinese.
Customer Rating:
Summary: China Shakes the World
Comment: Good stories that give an understanding of what's been happening in China since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
Customer Rating:
Summary: As China goes, so goes the world?
Comment: Kynge recounts the rise of China as an economic and resource-sucking giant on the world scene in the last 20 years. The story, as usual with China and its 1.3 billion people, hinges on the massive markets and demand that even fractions of that enormity can generate.
The good news is that the shift of manufacturing to China, with its extremely (and artificially, Kynge points out) low production costs, has resulted in a flood of cheaper goods in the US and Europe, and that China has been buying billions of US treasury notes which of kept mortgage rates low. The bad news is these trends may not be sustainable, that any manufacturing still outside of China may be completely sucked into the Eastern giant, and that world resource demand (oil, steel, water, environment as a resource) by the Chinese giant may suck the world dry and create massive price and allocation problems.
Whether the reader is optimistic or pessimistic, in either case it is a troubled future, as the subtitle says, that awaits.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Startling Preview of the Emerging China
Comment: China Shakes the World is a well documented panorama of what China is moving to be in the near future. Yet the author writes in a spirit that is as entertaining in its irony as it is instructive. He uses statistics, particularly, that rock the reader, i.e., the number of young Chinese girls who commit suicide each day out of sheer hopelessness. (500+) Many of his figures demonstrate the impact of the sheer size of China's population, now more than 1.3 billion.
I recommend China Shakes the World as a resource book to keep on hand, a program of events that is already unfolding whether we in the West like it or not.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book On China's Economic Miracle
Comment: The book is not difficult and it is not complex, but it is dense in the sense it is packed with so much insight and value. I started out putting post-its on the pages I thought I would want to refer to again later, but had to stop when it became clear I was "post-itting" (if that is not a word, it certainly should be) just about every other page.
This book is unsurpassed in analyzing China's impact on the world. Through real world examples, it captures just how different China is in its business conduct just how strange a trading partner China is, and how it resembles no other great power. Kynge beautifully weaves China's contradictions into a tapestry that allows us to understand it, as best as is possible.
Though this book is in many ways a "big-think" book, it is nonetheless absolutely relevant to those doing business in or with China. It provides the best macroeconomic analysis of China I have yet seen and, by doing so, it provides invaluable knowledge of how to adjust/position your business to compete.
"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.
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