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China and the Credit Crisis: The Emergence of a New World Order by Giles Chance;Not so different
Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger: Can China and India Dominate the West? by Prem Shankar Jha;New order
When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin JacquesLacking luxury
Luxury China: Market Opportunities and Potential by Michel Chevalier and Pierre Xiao LuChanging climate policy
China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet by Abrahm Lustgarten; Times Books (2008); US$19Peeling the layers
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa &Repaving the road
The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering ChinaManufacturing discontent
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production GameTo have and have not
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban ChinaView from the sidelines
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, Translated by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang & Adi Ignatius; Simon &That's life
China Cuckoo: How I Lost a Fortune and Found a Life in China by Mark Kitto; Constable & Robinson, £8Coming of age under Mao
English by Wang Gang, Viking US$24Pictures of complexity
Postcards from Tomorrow Square by James Fallows; Vintage Books, US$14Missing out on the inside track
Made in China: Secrets of China's Dynamic Entrepreneurs by Winter Nie & Katherine Xin with Lily Zhang; John Wiley & Sons; US$24Shop floor stories
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing ChinaA Santana story
1,000 Days in Shanghai: The Story of Volkswagen, the First Chinese-German Car FactoryWitnessing change
Much has been written about the Cultural Revolution, but it is still hard to grasp how people lived through it - from one day to the next, one campaigThe Colonel conquers China
KFC in China: Secret Recipe for SuccessBillion-dollar opportunities
Supertrends of Future China: Billion Dollar Opportunities for China’s Olympic Decade &nHome truths
Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New ChinaInside the system
China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism by Judy Polumbaum with Xiong Lei; Rowan & Littlefield; US$24A new understanding
The Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterLife at the sharp end
Business Republic of China: Tales From the Front Line of China’s New RevolutionAll in the mind
Think Like Chinese by Zhang Haihua and Geoff BakerDoom and gloom
China and America: A Time of Reckoning by Charles DumasChasing the dream
The dispute came out of nowhereHandover blues
It is often said that expatriates in Hong Kong can be divided into two groups: those who have arrived in the last 10 years or so and the ever-shrinkinA bite-sized meal
Rana Mitter proves that you don’t have to trudge through hundreds of pages to gain a nuanced view of China’s place in the current global mForward looking
China Into The Future: Making Sense of the World’s Most Dynamic EconomyHistory in the balance
China’s Brave New World – And Other Tales for Global TimesTaming the beast
Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion-Dollar Business in ChinaMandarin murder
Red Mandarin DressPutting the dragon in its place
Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race by Rebecca Fannin; McGraw-Hill; US$24Lessons from Mao
The Little Red Book of China Business by Sheila Melvin; Sourcebooks Inc; US$19Rocky relationship
During the summer of 2005, news writers in China’s main cities were prolific in their output of stories on the ever more strained relationship bSoftly, softly
Not long ago, Canada’s leading national daily, the Globe and Mail, published an essay weighing the merits of international humanitarianPulling the strings
The most common way to get internet, broadband television and landline telephone services in Hong Kong is through a single package from PCCW, the virtTroubling Taiwan
In 1995, an innocuous conversation between Chinese military officers and an American with access to policy circles led to a “firestorm” ofSolid service
China was effectively run as an empire and, regardless of what motivated the emperor, it is fairly safe to say that the rank and file had very littlMigratory lifestyles
It is one of the great economic success stories of the modern world but it is a story foreigners often misunderstandDifficult times
The end of the 19th century was a humbling time for imperial ChinaBackwards and forward
Generally acknowledged wisdom is that understanding the past is an invaluable asset when building a futureExcerpt: Grassroots revolution
The man who became the emperor Hongwu (meaning ‘immensely martial') was born to a dirt-poor peasant family, orphaned at sixteen and became,Worthless warmongering
Like most nations with a foothold in the global trade network, China is perpetually engaged in one economic conflict or anotherPrecarious security
More than anything else, the China story of the last couple of decades is one of scary growthPenchant for revolution
Instigated by Mao, the Cultural Revolution plunged China into chaosThe new voice of narcissism
She used the pen to study and write diaries that were picked up by a French journalist and published in 13 countries as The Diary of Ma YanBOOK REVIEW / China's development trap
The "transition" is the bureaucratic ossification of the Chinese regime, in which a gradualist approach over almost three decades has deliveUnder construction
China has turned into the world's biggest construction projectIndia
Set up under what is known as China's National Software Export Base, the office is staffed by specialists to work with Indian companies to understCounter culture
The countdown is underwayRisky flight path
China looks like being a make-it-or-break-it country for Boeing, now officially the world's second-ranked aircraft builder and sponsor of the 7E7Tough Times for Portals
In their darkest hour, left for dead after 2001's dotcom bloodbath, Sina, Sohu, Chinadotcom and Netease - China's four NASDAQ-listed InternetR&D heads into China
The nerds have their revengeHow to do China
Two such books are John Chan's China Streetsmart, and Scott Seligman's China Business Etiquette, newly reprinted to catch thChina Overpowered
It's a bit like trying to sell flood insurance in a dustbowl: In the depths of the worst power shortage to hit China since the mid-1980s, a growinCapital changes in the wind
It was fitting that the pronouncements should have coincided with Spring Festival, China's lunar New Year celebration, which began this year on aThe ties that bind
There was once a time when Hong Kong had a virtual monopoly on trade and business contacts with the Chinese MainlandInsatiable China
In commodities markets worldwide, China has emerged as more than another large economy to be fed: it has become the most voracious consumer of almostThe odd couple
The little red wagon, that icon of an innocent American childhood, is being outsourced to China - and John Kerry wasted no time in letting the AmericaNo more capital market fake orgasms?
The combined market capitalization for the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses was just US$513 billion at the end of last year, just over 70% of Hong Kong&#Ross Predicts
China is no longer so inscrutable, but Terrill's latest book, The New Chinese Empire, uses the same techniques to try to illuminate moderHow long will China be hot?
For months now, any association with the Middle Kingdom has brought with it the Midas touch on the world's capital marketsA bridge for prosperity
The port city of Ningbo lies only 160km south of Shanghai as the crow flies but it has suffered for more than a century from the fact that the broad eValue judgements
In November 2002, the Beijing authorities announced the creation of a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme that would give foreign iBranching out?
The recent launch by five foreign banks of internet banking in China may herald the beginning of a new phase for foreign financial institutions on theAdam's Palace
One of the China trade's bestknown players, Jardines chief China rep Adam
