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The Coming Collapse of China »

Authors: Gordon G. Chang
ISBN-13: 9780812977561, ISBN-10: 0812977564
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Gordon G. Chang

Gordon Chang has lived and worked in China for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss. His articles on China have been published in The New York Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, and The International Herald Tribune. This is his first book.

Book Synopsis

China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon.

Andrew J. Nathan

Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking. <%AUTHOR%> miracle,KirkusGordon Chang takes us on a vividly observed voyage behind the scenes of China's so-called economic

	Foreword: The Final Chapter
	Acknowledgments
1	The Dinner Party: The Revolution Has Grown Old	3
2	Lake of Gasoline: The Discontent of the People Is Explosive	17
3	Industrial Theme Parks: State-Owned Enterprises Are Dying	45
4	future@china.communism: Is the Communist Party Ready for the Internet?	70
5	Life Everlasting: Industrial Policy Grants Perpetual Existence to the Inept	94
6	The Banks That Sank: Chinese Banks Will Fail	122
7	Biting the Snakes: The State Attacks the Private Sector	144
8	Highway Girls: China's Economy Stagnates	166
9	Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse	187
10	Sentences Without Verbs: Ideology and Politics Restrain Progress	213
11	Emerging in the East: Can the Chinese State Evolve?	235
12	Roads to Ruin: How the State Will Fall	256
	Epilogue: The State Begins to Disintegrate	283
	Notes	287
	Index	329