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Analyzes China's economic rise and its impact on global affairs, assessing China's weaknesses--environmental pollution, crisis in social trust, and faltering government institutions--in terms of their effects on the world.
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'Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.' Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food ' and its export of goods, workers, and investments ' drastically reshapes world trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of the people who are driving China's transformation ' entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks ' Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both.
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