China Airborne: The Test of China's Future

Fallows, James

ISBN 10: 1400031273 / ISBN 13: 9781400031276

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013

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Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M01400031273-V

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: China Airborne: The Test of China's Future
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1400031273
• ISBN-13: 9781400031276
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: very good

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Inhaltsangabe

From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.

In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China’s project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation’s hyper-growth and hyper-urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century.
 
Completing this remarkable picture, Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi’an, home to 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly-line workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China’s pursuit of aeronautical supremacy. He concludes by explaining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and for the rest of the world—and the right ways for us to respond.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has reported from around the world and has worked in software design at Microsoft, as the editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He is currently a news analyst for NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered and a visiting professor at the University of Sydney.