Book description
"REIN MASTERFULLY CAPTURES WHERE [CONSUMERS] HAVE BEEN AND WHERE THEY DREAM OF GOING." —FORTUNE
PRAISE FOR THE END OF CHEAP CHINA
"Brilliantly written." —Financial Times
"Rein combines elegant writing and methodical research. Years of working in China have given him access to important players. Incisive interviews with billionaires, business executives, government officials, and migrant workers guide the pulse of the narrative . . . essential reading." —USA Today
"Engaging. Full of vivid anecdotes from Chinese billionaires to senior party officials and even prostitutes. For any foreigners thinking about doing business in the Middle Kingdom, The End of Cheap China is a good place to start." —Reuters
"Must-read." —Consulting Magazine
"A lively read." —Straits Times
"An inside look." —Industry Week
"Compelling, engaging, informative." —The Cayman Islands Journal
"Lively, well-written book." —South China Morning Post
"Engaging, highly readable style with real-life examples from vast catalog of China research. For good measure, Rein wedded into China's elite, marrying the granddaughter of 1980s Politburo chairman Marshal Ye Jianying" —Asia Times
Table of contents
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Prologue
- Chapter 1: Chinese Billionaires Outnumber American Ones
- Chapter 2: Cheap Chinese Labor? Not Anymore
- Chapter 3: Stability Is the Key to Happiness
- Chapter 4: The Modern Chinese Woman
- Chapter 5: Why Chinese Consider Kentucky Fried Chicken Healthful
- Chapter 6: Understanding Corruption in China
- Chapter 7: China’s Real Estate Sector
- Chapter 8: Chinese Neo-Colonialism in Africa and the End of American Hegemony?
- Chapter 9: China’s Educational Sector
- Chapter 10: What the End of Cheap China Means for the Rest of the World
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The End of Cheap China, Revised and Updated: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118926802
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