China, Inc.: The Relentless Rise of the Next Great Superpower - Couverture souple

Fishman, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743275500 ISBN 13 : 9780743275507

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

What will happen when China can manufacture nearly everything that the United States and Europe can, at one-third the cost? It's a ground-shaking question and, when it comes to the West's future economic health, not everyone will want to hear the answer. The burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion consumers, both of which are driven by infusions of foreign capital and technological know-how, are rapidly altering global commerce. So are China's newfound freedoms, national ambitions, and growing prestige. In CHINA INC., veteran journalist and former commodities trader, Ted Fishman, shows that economics is just where the story begins. Fishman paints a vivid picture of how the mega trends radiating out of China are shaping the day-to-day lives of people everywhere. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Chinese, European and American workers, managers, and executives, Fishman also tells 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 reportage and analysis.

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Quatrième de couverture

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged centre of global capitalism? What is the global impact of 300 million rural Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies now have large-scale operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in Europe, America and the rest of the world?
Why are China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China is able to manufacture nearly everything that Europe and the United States can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all our lives?
These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides the answers. Veteran journalist Ted Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Travelling through China's frenetic landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets, towns and cities where the reality of Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all humanity. 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 their future.

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR CHINA INC.:
'Fishman provides a dizzying view of the Chinese industrial revolution in full spate... A mine of vivid reportage' DIRECTOR
'Where Fishman excels is getting to the heart of what makes modern China so potent an economic force' MANAGEMENT TODAY
'[Fishman] unearths some striking nuggets' DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘What will happen when China can manufacture nearly everything that the US and Europe can but at a third of the cost? Fishman’s book explores the myriad ways in which changes in the Chinese economy and society will shape how people around the world will live their lives’
Waterstones Book Quarterly April issue

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743275500
• ISBN 13: 9780743275507
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible