The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
10 best books like The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (Alexandra Harney): Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China, English, Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future, Mr. China, China: Fragile Superpower, Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and the Modern Chinese Consumer, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
| Author | Tom Carter |
| ISBN | 9881616409 |
Unsavory Elements is an unprecedented anthology of 28 new, original, true stories from some of the most celebrated foreign writers that have lived in modern China. Westerners are flocking to China in increasing numbers to chase their dreams even as Chinese emigrants seek their own dreams abroad,...
| Author | Kang Zhengguo |
| ISBN | 0393064670 |
With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China,...
| Author | Wang Gang |
| ISBN | 0143144383 |
During the darkest days of Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy named Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China's remote northwest. Here conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange among neighbors, classmates, and even friends....
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
| Author | Paul Midler |
| ISBN | 0470405589 |
Praise for Poorly Made in China "This fast-paced travelogue through the world of Chinese manufacturing is scary, fascinating, and very funny. Midler is not only a knowledgeable guide to the invisible underbelly of the global economy, he is a sympathetic and astute observer of China, its challenges,...
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
| Author | Elizabeth C. Economy |
| ISBN | 0801489784 |
China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss,...
| Author | Tim Clissold |
| ISBN | 0060761407 |
I doubt I'll read a better business book this year. A cracking tale of a man trying to set up and invest in businesses in China, it reads sometimes like a drama, sometimes a soap opera, sometimes a comedy and sometimes a travelogue. It works on all these levels too. You can't help feel sorry for Clissold as...
China: Fragile Superpower
| Author | Susan L. Shirk |
| ISBN | 0195373197 |
Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics...
Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise
| Author | Carl E. Walter |
| ISBN | 0470825863 |
In Red Capitalism, Carl Walter and Fraser Howie detail how the Chinese government reformed and modeled its financial system in the 30 years since it began its policy of engagement with the west. Instead of a stable series of policies producing steady growth, China's financial sector has boomed and...
What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and the Modern Chinese Consumer
Today, most Americans take for granted that China will be the next global superpower. But despite the nation's growing influence, the average Chinese person is still a mystery - or, at best, a baffling set of seeming contradictions - to Westerners who expect the rising Chinese consumer to resemble...
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
| Author | Yasheng Huang |
| ISBN | 0521898102 |
Since 1978, the Chinese economy has grown phenomenally. This is not in dispute. By exactly what mechanism has China managed to grow so fast? There is more room for debate on this question. A widespread view is that private entrepreneurship, financial liberation, and political reforms played a minor...
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 0307456242 |
“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,...
| Author | Bill Holm |
| ISBN | 1571312501 |
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
| Author | Ian Johnson |
| ISBN | 0375719199 |
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed...
One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
| Author | James McGregor |
| ISBN | 0743258398 |
It is well known that with a population of 1.3 billion people, China's market is moving quickly toward surpassing those of North America and Europe combined. Companies from the United States and around the globe are flocking there to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products. But as former "Wall...
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
| Author | Ted C. Fishman |
| ISBN | 0743257359 |
The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman's bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0141441836 |
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1558820582 |
‘If I Were You’ published in Wodehouse’s greatest age harks back to his earlier novels without the looseness of relying on his stock characters from the Drones club or the Blandings or Dolly the Dip sagas. Despite the more Edwardian feel to the novel it is a great Wodehouse yarn that underplays...
An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva
• Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos
• Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture,...
| Author | Andy Rooney |
| ISBN | 1586482009 |
I can take five minutes of Andy Rooney and not be too bothered by his crotchety befuddlement. These 150+ essays, however, are redundantly crammed with balderdash and misspellings (which made it through spell-check, but were—obviously—never eyeballed). One strikingly obtuse slice of balderdash,...
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash
| Author | Ogden Nash |
| ISBN | 0233988920 |
Nash is the product of a literary age of dandies; those who came of age in the interwar years and always had a clever killer line in readiness. If it were a duel of wits their weapon would be superior to yours; not bigger, not better but sharper and aesthetically gorgeous.
It’s a style that palls...
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants
| Author | Chen Guidi |
| ISBN | 1586484419 |
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in...
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
| Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
| ISBN | 0618035494 |
One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable...
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
| Author | James Kynge |
| ISBN | 0618705643 |
“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 across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these...
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
| Author | Robyn Meredith |
| ISBN | 0393062368 |
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number...
