Showing China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America by James Kynge

HardCover. Pub Date: September. 2006 Pages: 288 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Let China sleep. For when she wakes SHE will shake the world Napoleon's words seem eerily Prescient today. AS the shock Waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe . In China Shakes the World. the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times. James Kynge. traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs. raw materials. energy. and food - and its export of goods. workers. and investments - drastically reshape world trade and politics. Delving beyond mere recitation of by-now-familiar statistics. Kynge's on-the-ground reporting provides alternative explanations for China's explosive transformation. revealing many of the usual reasons given for its growth to be myths. Most important for the future. he details China's deep. systemic...