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China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780753821152
Edition: Open Market Ed
Format: Import
ISBN: 075382115X
Label: Phoenix
Manufacturer: Phoenix
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: December 27, 2006
Publisher: Phoenix
Studio: Phoenix
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Rating: - The rise of China- for good and for bad
This book focuses on the economic development of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It opens with Chinese workers dismantling a German steel factory and transmitting it whole to China. There will also be a description of how Chinese workers and enterprisers enter the Italian textile center of Prato and provide first an economic boom, and then a threat to its existence. The book is filled with pictures of gigantic Chinese economic projects and development. The subtitle of the book 'The ... Read More
Rating: - The flight of the Phoenix : a metaphor for change
Reading this book should provide some insight into why, and how, China is changing the world. It should also challenge the complacency of those who still think that nations can operate in economic isolation from each other, behind the flimsy protections afforded by trade barriers.
The book opens with the description of a swarm of Chinese workers dismantling a German steel mill. The steel mill, which has been sold at its scrap metal value, is then re-erected in China and returned to service. ... Read More
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