This nearly new paperback copy of Gordon C. Chang's "The Coming Collapse of China" has minor wear, yet no apparent marks and its binding is tight. From the publisher:
The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people - and for the people of the world - could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world biggest by 2010. The county may be America's greatest rival, but each of us, from diplomat to businessman to ordinary consumer, has a vital interest in China's stability.
The People's Republic, however, is failing. The government is corrupt and weak, the economy is stalling, and the social fabric fraying in both countryside and city. As at so many times in the past, the Chinese people want change. Soon they will demand it.
The Coming Collapse of China does not flinch. It states what almost no one will say out loud: The end of the modern Chinese state is near. The People's Republic has five years, perhaps ten, before it falls. This book tells why.
Gordon Chang has lived and worked in China for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss. His articles on China have been published in The New York Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, and The International Herald Tribune. This is his first book.
The first line in it is, "They will move Mao Zedong's body soon; it lies on hallowed ground. "
Key words an phrases include:
central government leaders, unrecoverable loans, leadership compound, senior cadres, state commercial banks, central government officials,
Jiang Zemin, People's Republic, Communist Party, Falun Gong, Hong Kong, Chen Rong, Deng Xiaoping, Tiananmen Square, Zhu Rongji, Mao Zedong, New York, Big Four, Dalai Lama, World Trade Organization, People's Liberation Army, United States, Bank of China, Guangdong Province, Randy Daniel, White Swan, Chen Shui-bian, Cultural Revolution, Golden Summit, Chiang Kai-shek, Dinyar Lalkaka
Details:
Pages: 346
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN-10: 0099445344
ISBN-13: 978-0099445340
Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 1"
