China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation - Softcover

Kynge, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297852450 ISBN 13: 9780297852452

Publisher: Orion, 2006

Synopsis

We have long been looking for a book on the new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition, becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. James Kynge, China Bureau Chief of the Financial Times since 1998, will, by July, complete a book that shows not only the extraordinary rise of the Chinese economy, but what the future holds as China begins to influence the world. This is the book for anyone who wants to understand this astonishing turn-round.

On the eve of the British industrial revolution some 230 years ago, China accounted for one third of the global economy. In 1979, after 30 years of Communism, its economy contributed only two per cent to global GDP. Now it is back up to five per cent, and rising. As Kynge says, although China is already a palpable force in the world, its re-emergence is only just starting to be felt. Over the next decade the hunger for foreign jobs, raw materials, energy and food will reshape world trade, capital flows and politics. The outflow of Chinese manufactured products, tourists, students, corporate and personal investments will be felt keenly in some parts.

Kynge also shows China's weaknesses - its environmental pollution, its crisis in social trust, its weak financial system and the faltering institutions of its governments - which are poised to have disruptive effects on the world. The fall-out from any failure in China's rush to modernity or simply from a temporary economic crash in the Chinese economy would be felt around the world.

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Review:

balanced and very readable account¿ China Shakes the World is an excellent book, far more useful and sensible than most business bestsellers or the majority of general introductions to modern China¿

As Kynges wisely remarks, China owes its emergence as global powers to the freemarket system pioneered by the US, but has very different values from those in most countries that have grown up under the Pax Americana.The more it adapts those values, the more the rest of us are likely to applaud and make way for its continued extraordinary progress. (Chris Patten Financial Times)

particularly well-written.... brings alive all the complexities and contradictions of China's development.... combines a fresh perspective with an eye for arresting detail. (THE ECONOMIST)

sweeping, fluent essay... The author's touch is as deft as the brushstrokes in a Chinese landscape... it is the conclusions of the book that make it worth the reading time... He makes a sophisticated argument that by interweaving Chinese interests in peace and prosperity with those of the west, both parties will ultimately benefit. From a global point of view, he explains, China's emergence is of enormous virtue. (SUNDAY TIMES)

... pungent and discursive... This feels like China as it really is... The conclusions of Kynge's courageous essay are harsh but persuasive. (MARTIN VANDER WEYER SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

he is admirably knowledgeable about the subject and the country. He tells the story of China's rise with sympathy and insight. (THE GUARDIAN)

a business book, but one with a strongly beating human heart,and it's a splendid introduction to what is happening in, and to, China today. What Kynge brings to the subject is a real passion fuelled by his years living there, which has also given him a depth and sophistication that few other China books can match. (IRISH TIMES)

James Kynge's absorbing essay on the global effects of China's emergence as an economic superpower is filled with...telling colour and detail... he offers a wide-ranging analysis of the unprecendented challenge which China now offers to the West. (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

gripping (RICHARD SPENCER DAILY TELEGRAPH)

captures the ambivalence that many intelligent people feel about the rise of China... excellent reporting. (FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW)

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0297852450
• ISBN 13: 9780297852452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256