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The end of cheap China : economic and cultural trends that will disrupt the world / Shaun Rein.

By: Rein, Shaun, 1977-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012]Description: xvi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781118172063 (hardback); 111817206X (hardback).Subject(s): Labor -- China | Costs, Industrial -- China | Consumption (economics) -- China | China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- | China -- Social conditions -- 2000- | China -- CommerceDDC classification: 330.951
Contents:
Chinese billionaires outnumber American ones -- Cheap Chinese labor? Not anymore : China's workers are demanding better pay and better conditions ... and they are earning them -- Stability is the key to happiness : how China's government thinks and why it acts the way it does -- The modern Chinese woman -- Why Chinese consider Kentucky Fried Chicken healthful : China's iffy food supply chain is putting a premium on safe food -- Understanding corruption in China : what China's underground sex trade shows about its government -- China's real estate sector : boom or bust or something else? -- Chinese neo-colonialism in Africa and the end of American hegemony? -- China's educational sector : preventing China from cementing its superpower status -- What the end of cheap China means for the rest of the world.
Summary: Examines the rise of China and how this will affect the American way of life. Identifies eight mega-trends that are catalyzing change in China:
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Chinese billionaires outnumber American ones -- Cheap Chinese labor? Not anymore : China's workers are demanding better pay and better conditions ... and they are earning them -- Stability is the key to happiness : how China's government thinks and why it acts the way it does -- The modern Chinese woman -- Why Chinese consider Kentucky Fried Chicken healthful : China's iffy food supply chain is putting a premium on safe food -- Understanding corruption in China : what China's underground sex trade shows about its government -- China's real estate sector : boom or bust or something else? -- Chinese neo-colonialism in Africa and the end of American hegemony? -- China's educational sector : preventing China from cementing its superpower status -- What the end of cheap China means for the rest of the world.

Examines the rise of China and how this will affect the American way of life. Identifies eight mega-trends that are catalyzing change in China:

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