China Airborne by James Fallows
From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China's modernization--its plan to rival America as the world's leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.
In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China's project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation's hyper-growth and hyper-urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America's transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century. Completing this remarkable picture, Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi'an, home to 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly-line workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China's pursuit of aeronautical supremacy. He concludes by explaining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and for the rest of the world--and the right ways for us to respond.James Fallows is the National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where he has worked for more than two decades. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermines American Democracy, Looking at the Sun, More Like Us, and National Defense, which won the American Book Award for nonfiction, are among his past works. His wife and he live in Washington, DC.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400031276 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400031273 |
| Title | China Airborne |
| Author | James Fallows |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2013-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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