Made in China
Subtitle: voices from the new revolution
By: Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Publisher: TV Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: China -- History -- 1976-2002; China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000; China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000
Other titles: In search of China (Television program)
Description: "China is currently undergoing the most dramatic change in its long history. How are the Chinese adapting to their new hybrid system of personal and economic freedoms combined with rigid political controls? Investment banker Robert Lawrence Kuhn has been advising Chinese government officials, enterprise executives, and foreign investors for over a decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with these political and business leaders and with ordinary workers and families, Dr.

Kuhn has created in Made in China: Voices from the New Revolution, a candid, complex portrait of China today.".

"With unprecedented and uncensored access to Chinese citizens and institutions, he illuminates the social consequences of the Chinese commitment to build a free market system and the resultant unleashing of the dynamism, energy, and entrepreneurial spirit of the Chinese people.

He speaks with leaders of Chinese companies and the new breed of Chinese entrepreneurs, examines China's first major bankruptcy and the plight of displaced workers, and chronicles the emerging Chinese market economy as no other chronicler can. Readers meet managers and workers, townfolk and farmers, scholars and students, senior leaders and social critics - a character-rich, contemporary cross-section of the Chinese people as they work and live.

These unforgettable people personify China's dynamic emergence as a world power undergoing one of the most extraordinary economic and social revolutions the world has seen."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "This book ... accompanies the documentary ... 'In Search of China' ... broadcast on PBS" -- p. 8

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pride and stability; title: Civilization and history; title: Reform and restructure; title: Society and its problems; title: Chinese characteristics; title: Odyssey and media; title: Science and technology; title: Outlook and prospects; title: Appendix: China today