The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage - Softcover

Harney, Alexandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114867 ISBN 13: 9780143114864

Publisher: Penguin, 2009

Synopsis

In this landmark work of investigative reporting, former Financial Times correspondent Alexandra Harney uncovers a story of immense significance to us all: how China's factory economy gains a competitive edge by selling out its workers, environment and future. Harney's firsthand reporting brings readers face to face with a world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact a staggering toll in human misery and environmental damage.

About this title

Review:

"Presents the inconvenient truths about China and globalization that flat worlders have overlooked."
-Clyde Prestowitz, author of Three Billion New Capitalists

"Anyone running a company that outsources manufacturing to China, or is thinking of doing so, needs to read this book."
-Financial Times

"The gritty, corrupt reality of the Chinese economic miracle is the great business story of our time and Alexandra Harney has got it."
-Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of China Syndrome

About the Author:

Alexandra Harney was a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. She has reported from Japan, China and the USA among other places. From 2003 until early 2006 she was the FT's South China correspondent based in Hong Kong, where she still lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143114867
• ISBN 13: 9780143114864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352