The Elephant and the Dragon

The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us

By: Robyn Meredith

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

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 for one dollar an hour. Communist China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart, its shelves full of goods made in Chinese factories.

Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies - strategies we must understand in order to survive in the new global economy.

The Elephant and the Dragon explains how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion people, have spurred a new "gold rush", and what this will mean for the rest of the world.

©2007 Robyn Meredith (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc.

Critic reviews

"Robyn Meredith's systematic analysis fills the gap in a spirited, readable manner." (Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes)
"An exciting and journalistic account of one of the great economic stories of our time: the transformation of China and India." (Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist)

Great educational read.....

Great book, lots of insight on how stupid people, even smart people do stupid things for a few bucks, like, holding back half a nation out of greed, ignorance and stupidity.

very good

An excellent book - providing key information for people who want and need to understand the transformation of our economy. Really, everyone should listen to this. Well read too.

Wake up World

While we were sleeping with our material world these people were preparing. Like it or not the author brings it home in many fashions. I didn't regret this one bit.

Eye opening book

Worth reading

Interesting information but much too DATED!

Neglected to note the publishing date of this book - which was about 2007 - but there are many comments about "what is going to happen in 2006" - so the information in the changing economy is frustratingly out of date. Not worth it.