Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.

Examines the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the global level, and the role of the Chinese people in their nation's foreign economic policy.

"The "Oracle" of macroeconomic trends shows you how to profit from China's rising place in the global economy China's growing prominence in the global economy has presented both new challenges and new opportunities for investors. In China's Rise and the New Age of Gold, author Stephen Leeb is the first to predict that by far the biggest opportunity will be in gold, as China's rise precipitates an unprecedented bull market that will propel gold's price...

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted. When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it "a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order." But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more...

"A book for anyone doing business in China. Most literature on doing business in emerging markets has focused on why to enter these markets and how to build your business once you get there. But with the rapid changes that globalization has brought on, what's needed is an updated look at the current difficulties of doing business in these regions-and in China in particular. Why is it so much harder for companies to operate there today even from just...

"Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt growth, nor do they cause the same kind of harm. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money--elite exchanges of power and profit--cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces...

Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked. In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty of the world's leading China experts--all affiliates of the renowned...