Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
by:
James Fallows (author)
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the...
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“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows.” —from “China Makes, the World Takes”Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occurring in China. The ten essays collected here cover a wide-range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs, to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lucidly explains the economic, political, social, and cultural forces at work turning China into a world superpower at breakneck speed. This eye-opening and cautionary account is essential reading for all concerned not only with China's but America's future role in the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307456243 (0307456242)
Publish date: December 30th 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 262
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Cultural,
Economics,
Journalism,
Culture,
Politics,
Asia,
China
collection of F's Atlantic articles -- some very, very good. A couple can be skipped -- as to your taste.