China girl - Le indagini di Neal Carey - Don Winslow

China girl – Le indagini di Neal Carey – Don Winslow
Italian | 2016 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 8806214322 | EPUB | 374.18 KB

Robert Pendleton è un genio della chimica e ha appena brevettato un fertilizzante che potrebbe valere una fortuna. Partito per una conferenza a San Francisco, smette di dare notizie di sé e dei frutti delle sue ricerche. Non c’è da stupirsi se gli Amici di Famiglia, che hanno finanziato il suo lavoro, vogliono scoprire che fine abbia fatto, decidendo anche stavolta di rivolgersi a Neal Carey, il loro uomo migliore. Quella che sembra un’indagine facile si rivela però un incubo. Neal sarà costretto a un lungo viaggio costellato di pericoli, tra la Chinatown di San Francisco e le strade di Hong Kong, fino ad arrivare nella Cina piú profonda e arcaica. E dovrà vedersela con la Cia, con il governo cinese e con un’organizzazione altrettanto letale, che agisce nell’ombra. Ma soprattutto con la bellissima Li Lan: una dark lady, o forse una vittima innocente.

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The American Phoenix: And Why China and Europe Will Struggle after the Coming Slump (repost)

Charles Dumas, “The American Phoenix: And Why China and Europe Will Struggle after the Coming Slump”
2011 | ISBN 10: 1846685648 | PDF | 224 pages | 3 MB

2012 will bring another global economic crisis. It could have been avoided if America and other deficit countries had embarked on currency devaluation and tighter domestic policy to sustain recovery and growth, boost exports and savings, while cutting excessive debts built up in the pre-crisis ‘gilded age’. But they didn’t. Instead they continued to run large government deficits, effectively transferring debt from private to public hands, rather than reducing it through rising national savings rates.

Savings-rich countries, notably China, have not helped. To get the global economy in better balance they needed to reduce exports by revaluing their currencies and encouraging domestic demand. Instead,the second, third and fourth largest economies in the world have continued to increase their net exports, thwarting recovery in the United States, Britain and southern Europe. This economic imbalance, say Dumas and Choyleva, is going to cause another global economic crunch.

And afterwards? Perhaps surprisingly, but with impeccable reasoning, Dumas and Choyleva go on to argue that America will emerge from the slump in the strongest shape, China will struggle unless it takes steps to tackle its structural problems, Eurozone countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece are in for a depressing decade, while Britain, because of its labour market and exchange rate flexibility, will be in better shape to emulate America’s recovery. These are precarious times. To understand and prepare for them, this book will be invaluable

Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World [Repost]

Ted Fishman – China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
2006 | ISBN: 0743257359 | English | 368 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB

The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman’s bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.

China today is visible everywhere – in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential – and updated with new statistics and information – this dramatic account of China’s growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred – and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world’s biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China’s emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything – computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals – that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?

The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity

The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui
English | 2010 | ISBN: 184467360X, 1844673790 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

The End of the Revolution” shatters the myth that China’s recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the intellectual roots of his nation’s social and political problems, arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity. He calls for alternatives to both the present capitalist model of development and to the politics of China’s authoritarian past.

From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, “The End of the Revolution” details a broad sweep of social and intellectual history in an effort to forge a new path for China’s future.

Asia"s New Battlefield: The USA, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific

Richard Javad Heydarian, “Asia’s New Battlefield: The USA, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific”

ISBN: 1783603135, 1783603127 | 2015 | EPUB | 192 pages | 4 MB

This compact, insightful book offers an up-to-the-minute guide to understanding the evolution of maritime territorial disputes in East Asia, exploring their legal, political-security and economic dimensions against the backdrop of a brewing Sino-American rivalry for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. It traces the decades-long evolution of Sino-American relations in Asia, and how this pivotal relationship has been central to prosperity and stability in one of the most dynamics regions of the world. It also looks at how middle powers—from Japan and Australia to India and South Korea—have joined the fray, trying to shape the trajectory of the territorial disputes in the Western Pacific, which can, in turn, alter the future of Asia—and ignite an international war that could re-configure the global order. The book examines how the maritime disputes have become a litmus test of China’s rise, whether it has and will be peaceful or not, and how smaller powers such as Vietnam and the Philippines have been resisting Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Drawing on extensive discussions and interviews with experts and policy-makers across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights the growing geopolitical significance of the East and South China Sea disputes to the future of Asia—providing insights into how the so-called Pacific century will shape up.