2018, ISBN: 9780618705641

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dus… Mehr…

Oxford University Press, USA, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Oxford University Press, USA, 1964, 3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt USA, 2018-10-16. Paperback. Very Good. 2.3982 in x 22.5828 in x 14.9886 in., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt USA, 2018-10-16, 3, London: Fourth Estate, 2008. Paperback trade, good plus condition, front cover creased, few page corners faintly creased, pages faintly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 164 pp. An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just 30 years (something that took 200 years in Europe). It has become so integrated into the global economy that its prospects have immediate effects on our everyday lives: simultaneously doubling the cost of the London Olympics while halving the cost of our computers, and keeping the US economy afloat but sinking the Italian footwear industry. Because China s rise - like the fall of Rome or the British Raj - will echo down generations to come, these are the questions we increasingly need to ask. Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about China and start again. He introduces us to the thinkers that are shaping China's wide open future and opens up a hidden world of intellectual debate that is driving a new Chinese revolution and changing the face of the world., Fourth Estate, 2008, 0, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, binding its billion-plus population more tightly to the global economic system, the Asian giant's prodigious appetite for food, technology and natural resources has dramatically accelerated profound changes already well underway across the planet. Kynge, the Financial Times's former Beijing bureau chief, makes the voracious "appetites" of the new China his constant concern, as he uncovers the sources of and limitations on the giant country's epochal growth. Beginning with a scene in Germany's postindustrial Ruhr--where a steel mill is sold, deconstructed and shipped more than 5,000 miles for reassembly near the banks of the Yangtze River--Kynge assesses the socioeconomic transformations of China's low "Industrial Revolution-era" labor costs and modern production technology at home and abroad. But for all its world-shaking potential, notes Kynge, "China's endowments are deeply lopsided." Key weaknesses--such as a shortage of arable land, serious environmental devastation and pollution, systemic corruption and a dearth of resources--are conversely helping to ensure that China will have to manage its growing hegemony in a symbiotic manner with partners on the economic and geopolitical playing fields. Despite the subtitle, and a chapter devoted to China's acquisition of U.S. technologies, Kynge focuses at least as much on China's significance for Western Europe. Overall, Kynge's crisp assessment of the dynamics involved is both authoritative and eye-opening., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006, 2.75<

2006, ISBN: 9780618705641

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: Since China joined the World Trade… Mehr…

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, binding its billion-plus population more tightly to the global economic system, the Asian giant's prodigious appetite for food, technology and natural resources has dramatically accelerated profound changes already well underway across the planet. Kynge, the Financial Times's former Beijing bureau chief, makes the voracious "appetites" of the new China his constant concern, as he uncovers the sources of and limitations on the giant country's epochal growth. Beginning with a scene in Germany's postindustrial Ruhr--where a steel mill is sold, deconstructed and shipped more than 5,000 miles for reassembly near the banks of the Yangtze River--Kynge assesses the socioeconomic transformations of China's low "Industrial Revolution-era" labor costs and modern production technology at home and abroad. But for all its world-shaking potential, notes Kynge, "China's endowments are deeply lopsided." Key weaknesses--such as a shortage of arable land, serious environmental devastation and pollution, systemic corruption and a dearth of resources--are conversely helping to ensure that China will have to manage its growing hegemony in a symbiotic manner with partners on the economic and geopolitical playing fields. Despite the subtitle, and a chapter devoted to China's acquisition of U.S. technologies, Kynge focuses at least as much on China's significance for Western Europe. Overall, Kynge's crisp assessment of the dynamics involved is both authoritative and eye-opening., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006, 2.75<

ISBN: 9780618705641

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Poss… Mehr…

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2.5<