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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China by [Fallows, James]

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“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows.”
—from “China Makes, the World Takes”

Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occurring in China. The ten essays collected here cover a wide-range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs, to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lucidly explains the economic, political, social, and cultural forces at work turning China into a world superpower at breakneck speed. This eye-opening and cautionary account is essential reading for all concerned not only with China's but America's future role in the world.

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File Size: 571 KB
Print Length: 290 pages
Publisher: Vintage (December 24, 2008)
Publication Date: January 6, 2009
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B001NLL13U
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Another Excellent Book by Mr. Fallows

May 14, 2009

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Continuing his tradition of excellence - in both reporting and writing - Mr. Fallows' collection of essays on China is well put together on a variety of topics that will give the reader a snapshot of China in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics including coverage of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province.

What separates Mr. Fallows work from so many other essayists on China (many of them excellent as well) is his detailed and insightful reporting providing context for his observations. If you are traveling to China this book will help prepare you for the China of the 21st century - especially if you've never been or if has been a long time since you have visited China.

This book belongs on your China shelf besides other classics such River Town, The Last Days of Old Beijing, Mr. China and The Search for Modern China.

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Morgan

Very Interesting

October 15, 2013

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I was dreading reading this book for my world geography class last year, but it was actually extremely interesting. I'm from the United States and the relationship between the US and China is fascinating, if not pretty frightening. James Fallows delves into numerous aspects of life, having lived (currently living there as well I believe) in the country, from pollution, to corruption, Western China, factory work, censorship, the whole nine yards! Even if you aren't being forced into reading this by your professor, read it anyways. It's fascinating and very informative and I can't stress enough how what I learned has stuck with me and comes up in conversations more than one would think, and this book gave me the opportunity to be extremely informed in said conversations.

My ONLY complaint (as well as quite a few of my peers) is that it jumps around a lot. The book is divided into chapters/subjects that don't really flow with one another, but within those topics Fallows tended to be pretty consistent.

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Masao Miwa

Facts, just the facts.

September 19, 2016

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Great insight into China by a journalist who actually lived in China while writing about it. Refutes a lots of the hype and mis-information from news sources that report from afar. No political agenda or axe to grind. Reading it now a second time. I have been living half my time in China over the last 12 years and even with that experience, have learned a lot from this book. Well worth the read for anyone interested in an unbiased observation of China.

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Jack Kennedy Jr.

Humanistic View of China is Good

April 15, 2009

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Postcards From Tomorrow Square is an interesting and easy read filled with humanity as he writes about his experiences throughout China. The book makes numerous and ensightful references to "Great Firewall" of China referencing the somewaht haphazard filtering of the western Internet to domestic populations.

The author, James Fallows, provides contemporary factual data in the context of humanistic stories of the attempts at modernization and its new semi-capitailsitic economy. He describes China as "simultaneously so controlled and so out of control."

Unlike most contemporrary China-related books read this spring, Fallows work provides a face to the Chinese people from rural to urban areas through their ties to the land or the basic human needs found in each environment. Residing in a region of the United States where coal mining is the basis of the local economy, the death toll of the Chinese mining industry is staggering!

The current and future political, economic and cultural relationship between the United States and China is a repeating theme throughout the book. This theme is probably, to me any way, the most essential element of envisioning the future.

The work earned four stars on content, one star short based simply on the itroductory chapters were not illuminating. All and all, I am glad to have Fallows book in my new China library. It added and reinforced my growing knowledge of the emerging or would-be superpower.

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Rob Mathews

China, who knew

February 22, 2017

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For anyone wanting to understand the culture of China; this book is a good start into everyday life as seen through the author. Fallows does an excellent job interviewing and explaining their intent.

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Mr. Ronald E. Hubbard

Five Stars

June 3, 2017

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excellent material

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Botany Dave

Not bad. Easy to read

March 7, 2016

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Bought for a course (required readings). Not bad. Easy to read.

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Yolanda G

Five Stars

September 24, 2016

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Thank you

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