China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation: The Rise of the Hungry Nation [Paperback]

Should the U.S. worry about China? Most definitely— but, by Kynge's account, for different reasons from the ones being raised on Capitol Hill.

"captures the ambivalence that many intelligent people feel about the rise of China... excellent reporting." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"looks at China's rise from the inside out." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"A sweeping and fluent account of how China is changing every aspect of the modern world." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world

The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. James Kynge shows not only the extraordinary rise of the Chinese economy, but what the future holds as China begins to influence the world. On the eve of the British industrial revolution some 230 years ago, China accounted for one third of the global economy. In 1979, after 30 years of Communism, its economy contributed only two per cent to global GDP. Now it is back up to five per cent, and rising. Although China is already a palpable force in the world, its re-emergence is only just starting to be felt. Kynge shows China's weaknesses - its environmental pollution, its crisis in social trust, its weak financial system and the faltering institutions of its governments - which are poised to have disruptive effects on the world. The fall-out from any failure in China's rush to modernity or simply from a temporary economic crash in the Chinese economy would be felt around the world.

China Shakes the World is the winner of the prestigious
Financial Times / Goldmann Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2006.
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James Kynge has been a journalist in Asia for 19 years, covering many of the big events that have helped shape the region, including the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. For seven years he was China Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing. He speaks Mandarin fluently and has won a plethora of journalism awards. He graduated MA (hons) in Chinese and Japanese from Edinburgh University, lives in Beijing and is married with three children.