Authors: Ted C. Fishman, Alan Sklar
ISBN-13: 9781400101597, ISBN-10: 140010159X
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: Unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs. 30 min.
ALAN SKLAR has narrated over 75 audiobooks and earned numerous awards for his work. He has also provided the voice for thousands of corporate and medical videos, as well as many radio and TV commercials. He lives with his wife in New York.
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.
Mr. Fishman describes China's miracle economy with a mixture of fear and admiration. He is a lively writer, and some of his most vivid pages are devoted to the wrenching transformations brought about by the government's controlled experiment in free enterprise. He paints a neon-lit portrait of Shanghai, the showcase city of the new China. He also walks through the market stalls and factory floors of new super-cities like Shenzhen, a fishing town of 70,000 20 years ago that now has 7 million people, making it larger than Los Angeles or Paris, swelled by migrants from the countryside looking for a better life in the city. They are part of the largest human migration in history, a tide estimated to be as high as 300 million Chinese who account for the dynamism of the Chinese economy.
Introduction : the world shrinks as China grows | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Taking a slow boat in a fast China | 19 |
Ch. 2 | The revolution against the communist revolution | 37 |
Ch. 3 | To make 16 billion socks, first break the law | 53 |
Ch. 4 | Meet George Jetson, in Beijing | 77 |
Ch. 5 | Chairman Mao sells soup | 123 |
Ch. 6 | Through the looking glass | 137 |
Ch. 7 | The China price | 177 |
Ch. 8 | How the race to the bottom is a race to the top | 203 |
Ch. 9 | Pirate nation | 231 |
Ch. 10 | The Chinese-American economy | 253 |
Ch. 11 | The Chinese century | 271 |
Ch. 12 | One last story | 297 |