China, Inc.
How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
By Ted C. Fishman
(Scribner, Paperback, 9780743257350, 368pp.)
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (July 2005), Compact Disc (July 2005), MP3 CD (July 2005), Hardcover (February 2005)
Categories: Development - Economic Development, Globalization, International Relations - General
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China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all.
How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?
Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything -- computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals -- that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?
These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.
Veteran journalist Ted C. Fishman shows how China will force all of us to make big changes in how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers, citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future.
Ted C. Fishman's essays and reports have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Money, Harper's, Worth, Esquire, USA Today, GQ, Chicago magazine, and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been featured on Public Radio International's Marketplace. A former floor trader and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he ran his own trading firm until 1992. He lives in Chicago.
"If the twentieth was the American century, then the twenty-first belongs to China. It's that simple, Ted C. Fishman says, and anyone who doubts it should take his whirlwind tour of the world's fastest-developing economy."
-- The New York Times
"A must-read for American business people who operate in, buy from, or compete with China."
-- Chicago Sun-Times
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