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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China Paperback – December 30, 2008

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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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Starred Review. Fallows (Blind into Baghdad) offers a candid outsiders take on contemporary China in this entertaining and richly illustrated investigation of what distinguishes China from other Asian nations and what causes the dissonance between how China sees itself and how it is viewed by the rest of the world, particularly the U.S. The authors range is admirably broad—he takes on Chinese reality television, school systems, incisive economic analysis—and uncovers a raft of surprising similarities between the East and West. Fallows compares Shenzhen—the manufacturing and migration capital of southern China—to New York, where once youve left the airport and stashed your suitcase, its difficult to tell if youre a tourist or a native. In the gambling mecca of Macau (whose revenues recently exceeded those of Las Vegas), the author finds strains of Atlantic City. What Fallows lacks in expertise, he makes up for in a truly global vision and a magicians chest of social, economic and political insight. (Jan.)
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Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, lived in Asia for a period in the 1980s, visiting China occasionally. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he and his wife moved there, and he was able to witness firsthand the changes that brought China from a nation of drabness and conformity to an emerging economy and international financial power player. He was there as China prepared for the Olympics, facing international scrutiny of everything from its repressive politics to its polluted environment. He was also there as the nation coped with a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province. In this series of articles, Fallows reports on interesting trends and personalities in China—ambitious entrepreneurs and the rise in popularity of reality shows on state-run television. Despite the Western view of a powerful, single-minded China, Fallows presents a portrait of a huge and complex nation with such a vast range of ages and regional, geographic, and cultural differences that it defies simple definition. --Vanessa Bush

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage; unknown edition (December 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307456242
ISBN-13: 978-0307456243
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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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

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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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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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