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"Economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the rise of China as a global economic power -- and the challenges that lie before it -- in this timely collection of NewsHour reports." Container.

It is no secret that China has the world's fastest-growing economy. The trick is how average investors can tap into the opportunities it affords. Investment adviser Malkiel explains why and how the Chinese economy is poised for significant gains in the near future. He highlights not only Chinese firms and industries but also multinationals in the United States and elsewhere that are likely to benefit from China's explosive growth. Following this tour...

"This revised edition provides readers with a close understanding of the breathtaking technological and cultural evolution of 21st century China. The authors argue that after some 25 years of overt economic globalization, the Chinese have emerged as quite successful in their economic relationships with the West"--Provided by publisher.

While China is an economic superpower, its cheap-labor advantage is ending; its air and water are polluted; and its society is fractured by rich and poor. How can China achieve its goal of becoming a "moderately well off society" in a world of turbulent markets and a society of social disparities?

China's spectacular growth has led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party, its forward march seemingly unstoppable when contrasted with the West and Japan. In this book, Jonathan Fenby, a leading expert on the People's Republic, makes plain that China, too, faces major challenges which stand in the way of global domination. It has to deal with political, economic, social and international...

"In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues in today's China. They address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex, and popular culture, as well [as] the costs of urban gigantism, to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China--and...

"Since the age of Marco Polo, the West has been entranced by China's promise, viewing its vast population and resources as an unrivaled opportunity for expanding trade. During the 1990s, China astounded the world with double-digit annual growth rates, while attracting over $300 billion in foreign investment capital - an amount greater than any country other than the United States - into an economy smaller than that of Spain and the Netherlands combined....

Journalist Kynge traces the shock waves from Beijing to Tuscany to the Midwest as China's hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food--and its export of goods, workers, and investments--drastically reshape world trade and politics. As we become increasingly dependent on China's products and markets, the slightest change in the Chinese economy quickly reaches us. Drawing on his years in the country and his fluency in Mandarin, Kynge probes beyond...

Fung (Chinese studies, College of Business Administration, U. of Missouri at St. Louis, US), Pei (Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), and Zhang (economics, Illinois State U.) present a volume that collects current research and analysis on the Chinese economy, especially it relates to China's accession to the World Trade Organization. The eighteen chapters are divided into four parts dealing with economic performance after accession,...