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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?

These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.Veteran journalist and former commodities trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman's account begins with the burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion consumers, both of which are being driven by historically unprecedented infusions of foreign capital and technological know-how. Traveling through China's frenetic landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets, streets, stores, towns, and cities where the story of Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all humanity. Fishman also draws on interviews with Chinese, American, and European workers, managers, and executives to show 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, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers understand their futures.


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China, Inc., How the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

Introduction: The world Shrinks as China Grows
Chapter One: Taking a Slow Boat in a Fast China
Chapter Two: The Revolution Against the Communist Revolution
Chapter Three: To Make 16 Billion Socks, First Break the Law
Chapter Four: Meet George Jetson, in Beijing
Chapter Five: Chairman Mao Sells Soup
Chapter Six: Through the Looking Glass (How the Chinese Economy Works its Way Around the World)
Chapter Seven: The China Price
Chapter Eight: How the Race to the Bottom is the Race to the Top
Chapter Nine: Pirate Nation
Chapter Ten: The Chinese-American Economy
Chapter Eleven: The Chinese Century
Chapter Twelve: One Last Story