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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780743257350 Author(s): Ted C. Fishman Format: Paperback Year: 2006 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Dimensions: 142 x 215 x 22 (w x l x h) Pages: 353

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Description: China today is visible everywhere — in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential — and updated with new statistics and information — this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred — and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything — computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals — that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?

These are ground-shaking questions, and "China, Inc." provides answers.

Veteran journalist Ted C. Fishman shows how China wil