num_pages: 368
description: The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world its impact at the local level and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China Inc. Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Arajo crisscrossed the globe from 2009-2011 to investigate how the Chinese are literally making the developing world in their own image. What they discovered is a human story an economic story and a political story one that is changing the course of history and that has never been explored or reported in depth and on the ground. The silent army to which the authors refer is made up of the many ordinary Chinese citizens working around the world - in the oil industry in Kazakhstan mining minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo building dams in Ecuador selling hijabs in Cairo - who are contributing to China's global dominance while also leaving their mark in less salutary ways. With original and fresh reporting as well as top-notch writing China's Silent Army takes full advantage of the Spanish-speaking authors' outsider experience to reveal China's influence abroad in all its most vital implications - for foreign policy trade private business and the environment.
language: English
title: China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
publisher: Crown