Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China

"Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows."
--from "China Makes, the World Takes"

Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occurring in China. The ten essays collected here cover a wide-range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs, to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lucidly explains the economic, political, social, and cultural forces at work turning China into a world superpower at breakneck speed. This eye-opening and cautionary account is essential reading for all concerned not only with China's but America's future role in the world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 12/30/2008
ISBN: 9780307456243
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2008 pg. 1186
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 53
Booklist 01/01/2009 pg. 41
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2009 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2009 pg. 18
New York Review of Books 12/09/2010 pg. 32