China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
by James Kynge
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Author: James KyngeEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-10-11
ISBN: 0618919066
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: Good perspective on China in relation to the world
Summary: 4 Stars
Writing this in 2008, May, I have to say that I enjoyed the book, it left me with an idea of China's position in the world, but also on how few I know about such a great and big country. It states facts, and very little opinions, and some of the facts are individual stories from which you have to draw your own conclusions.
Anyway, as a big country, I finish the book feeling the need to read and know way more about China, geography, history, different peoples; but if books sizes relate to the country size and history, we may talk thousands of pages!
The book suffer the couple of years since the edition, and one misses more actual stories and references to recent news.
Summary of China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
"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.Commercial Policy Books
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