China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology that has never been matched by a developing country. The Pearl River Delta, Shanghai and Beijing have become city-regions whose growth and embrace of modernity strike the visitor with awesome force. This is a continent on the move, recovering the world position and wealth it once had.
The re-emergence of China as a superpower constitutes the biggest challenge the world has had for more than a century. Never before in modern times has the financial, trade, economic and diplomatic world pecking order been so profoundly reconstituted with the challenger country itself in the grips of incredible ideological and political change. This is a transition both internally in China and externally in the world beyond beset by hazard and risk. The world's peace and prosperity depends upon it being executed successfully.

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About the Author
Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre and a columnist for the Observer, where he was Editor, then Editor-in-Chief for four years. He began his career in journalism as economics editor for the BBC's Newsnight and for the Guardian.

Reviews
** 'Hutton's most provocatively enjoyable work to date * Martin Vander Weyer, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
** 'A typically contrarian verdict on the tiger economy of the middle kingdom * Robert McCrum, OBSERVER Books to Watch in 2007 *
** 'Pertinent and provocative * HERALD *
** 'A very informative, wide-ranging and readable study of the threat that China poses to itself and to the rest of the world * IRISH TIMES *



Book Information
ISBN 9780349118826
Author Will Hutton
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 32mm