A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market » (Unabridged)

Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University's business school, and as a media commentator worldwide. He is the author of "Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist," and "Investment Biker," He lives in New York City. His website is www.jimrogers.com.

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”

In this indispensable new book, Rogers, one of the world’s most successful investors, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential.

Rogers didn’t just wake up a Sinophile yesterday. He has been tracking the Chinese economy since he first went to China in 1984 in preparation for his round-the-world motorcycle trip and then again when he saw Shanghai’s newly reopened stock exchange. In the decades that followed---especially in recent years, with the easing of Communist Party financial dictates---the facts speak for themselves:

---The Chinese economy’s growth rate has averaged 9 percent since the start of the 1980s.

---China’s savings...

Introduction: Catching the China Ride 3

1 Investing: From Mao Caps to Small-Market Caps 15

2 Risk: The Perils of Success 37

3 Companies: Let a Thousand Brands Bloom 63

4 Energy: Not So Black 81

5 Transport: Paving the Way 103

6 Tourism: Up, Up, and Away 117

7 Agriculture: Have You Invested Yet? 141

8 Health, Education, Housing: Serve the Masses 167

9 Emerging China: The People's Republic of Tomorrow 187

Appendix 203

Index 207