The China Dream
The China Dream
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A look at China - potentially the world's largest market - and the hopes and disappointments of politicians and companies in their search for new riches.
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The China Dream by Joe Studwell
For 700 years, ever since outsiders first wrote about the place, the world has believed there are untold riches to be harvested in China. More recently, with the rise of globalisation, the spread of capitalism, and the growth in its population to 1.3 billion, the belief in China's unparalleled potential has taken on the order of an obsession. During the 90s, China astounded the world with double-digit annual growth rates while attracting over $300 billion in foreign investment. Politicians, economists and business leaders everywhere foresaw in China a market for goods and services to dwarf all others. In this thoroughly researched and engaging book, Joe Studwell provides a provocative analysis of the `China Dream'. He takes to task these predictions of growth - and instead foresees an economic crisis for China in the wake of the foreign-investment gold rush of the last ten years. A crisis that will destroy the hopes of outsiders realising their investment dreams.
*Independent: "a finely researched, important and cautionary contribution to our understanding of contemporary China"*Observer: "provides an invaluable guide to the money-sink that is the contemporary Chinese economy". * Spectator: "the book's clarity of expression will make it hard for even the most determined dreamers to refute". * Daily Telegraph: "a very readable account both of China's economic challenges and of the foolishness of too many Western businessmen over the past decade".
Joe Studwell has been a contributing writer to The Economist and was based in Beijing with The Economist Intelligence Unit. He is the founder and editor of The China Economic Quarterly.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781861973368 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861973365 |
| Title | The China Dream |
| Author | Joe Studwell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |