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Title: Coming Collapse of China by Gordon G. Chang ISBN: 037550477X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.82
Rating: 2
Summary: Thesis of this book contradicts the facts
Comment: There ARE many things wrong with China, and Mr Chang, an American-Chinese lawyer, goes to great lengths to tell us about them in lurid detail. He sees the China glass not merely as half empty, but as completely drained. However, as anyone who has visited the country in the last two decades can attest, China has also done many things right, especially in terms of economic development. China is well on its way to replacing Japan as Asia's economic superpower. The vast majority of Chinese people are vastly better off today than they were twenty years ago, and they know it.
China can sometimes be a frustrating country, and one cannot help but wonder what personal or professional trauma led to the deep animus against China that Chang displays in this book. If your interest is in China-bashing for the sake of China-bashing, you may want to add this boook to your library. If your interest is in the facts about both what is wrong and what is right with contemporary China, skip this exercise in venting personal hostility.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incisive points from real experience, not only analysis!!!
Comment: Today most people look China as a good market. But mostly do not knowthe facts that:
* Most investors lost money finally
* Most people who lost money (if not all) won't tell much about their story, due to varies reasons (future career, afriad of Chinese government will punish, personal dignity, ...)
* The money eventrally is taken by Cchinese Ggovernment
* Western investors in China will facing many unexpected problems (inconsistent policy, complex relationship, personal safty, the incomplete law system, political deterioration, ...)
Most of the information westerners get are initially come from Chinese Ggovernment, who is deceiving people around the world in a way without any moral concience. It is attracting foreign investment in all means, and take the investment eventrally in all means.
Also, the economic statistics about China is far from accurate. Due to China's media control, lots of real issues are tightly covered by Chinese Government. Only insiders will know.
This book disclosed some of the severe problems. Very worthy to read.
Rating: 1
Summary: poorly written book by a silly, pampered Attorney
Comment: Although the author has many interesting experiences that he could be sharing in his book, he is inept in organizing his thoughts in a cohesive way. He rambles far too long on disparate ideas and then easily exposes his stupidity in writing such silly things such as....p.85..."If ayone needs proof that China has been isolated for most of its history, it is on the table at the Lee Gardens. Dessert is a collection of fried brown balls filled with gooey sesame paste, each ball presented on its own sheet of cheap pleated paper, the type that surrounds cupcakes? ...Even many Chinese won't touch them sort of famine or hallucination. Surely any society that was allowed to trade and intereact with foreigners would have done anything to import desserts in these desperate circumstances."
A direct quote of an irrelevant conclusion made by Gorden Chang. One finds far too numerous tangents to make it worth anyone's time or money to purchase this book. (Luckily, I borrowed this from a library!)
His book is overwrought with his emotional frustration at living in China that he cannot think clearly nor write clearly about all the problems to be found in China.
Yes, China is clearly a corrupt and devious developing country, but did he even have an editor in the process of writing this book? Probably not. Random House felt the most important thing to note was that the book type was set in Perpetua with larger display sizes that are "extremely elegant and form a most distinguished series of incriptional letters."
Translation: the book typeset is set in elegant letters easier to read ... writing.
Such a shame that a person with as much experience and knowledge such as Mr. Chang has weakened his thesis with his ramblings.
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Title: The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth by Joe Studwell ISBN: 0871138298 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Integrating China into the Global Economy by Nicholas R. Lardy ISBN: 0815751354 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade by Supachai Panitchpakdi, Mark L. Clifford ISBN: 0470820616 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution by David Sheff ISBN: 0060005998 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: China's Leaders by Cheng Li ISBN: 0847694976 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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