China, Inc.

By: Ted C. Fishman

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global 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? That China uses 40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its steel? 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 America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What could happen when China will be able to manufacture 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 the lives of all Americans?

©2005 Ted Fishman (P)2005 Tantor Media, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Fishman has scrupulously examined the impact of China's phenomenal growth in this important book." (Booklist)
"A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower." (Publishers Weekly)

No surprise at the means against the west.

The examples & interviews should not have been a new discovery after 2 decades of an "denied" offensive by their military for the economic battlefield..... they can't loose control of their masses and will go to war to avoid their internal collapse.

Full of Business Relevant Information

My wife is from China, but things are changing so fast we can’t keep up.

Necessary Food for Thoughts

What a book ! So interesting and full of comparism. I will recommend it to anybody who has thoughts of what will happen tomorrow. Though there have be many changes since 2004, the trend to 2007 will be thought provoking. Looking forward to the next edition.

China!!!... They Are For Real!!!

I have read many books on China and the fact that they are poised to be the next economic superpower in the coming (if not currently) years.

I agree, and unless America gets "it's house in order" soon, we'll be so indebted to China that it won't be the least bit fun for us.

Great book and stayed tuned to China!

China Inc.

Although this book is somewhat slanted it does contain many facts about the rise of the Chinese economy and some of the many ways that it's influence is having an impact on the lives of Americans and others around the world, including the Chinese. If you need proof just go to any store and look at whats for sale and where it came from. China is a fast rising power and we all need to be aware of that. This book will give you some idea of why that should be important to you.

Enlightening Overview of China's Economy

Comprehensive discussion of the economy of China in the 21st century. Interesting and enlightening; relates the inner-workings of strategic Chinese economic policy, Chinese entrepreneurs and systems of international trade, and how these policies and systems can or do effect western nations.

timely

Because this is a newly published book, it is a timely update on how China has broken into the 21st century and its implications for not only the US, but also the rest of the world.
The book is long and somewhat detailed, but very informative. The narration is similar to listening to a dull professor giving a lecture.

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China status update

If you are thinking of investing in China, you better read this first. This book tells both the progress and pitfalls of doing business in that country. It does a great job of expaining why things work the way they do in China. One thing that is very clear, when this "new" workforce is fully mobilized it will be a competitive force like the world has never seen.

China, Inc is Great

My several trips to China gave me a great base to juge the content of this book. The great insights I got from the book gave me a better understanding of China.